Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:30AM
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When you ask Facebook for your archive it's already pure HTML. All you need to do is to censor it somewhat (if appropriate, e.g. remove private messages) and host it somewhere with access control.
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Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by polskibus on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:39AM
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That must be just a tiny bit of the entire data set they have about you. Tracking from all pages containing like button, all characters entered into chat, including those typed but deleted or not sent otherwise. I wonder how does it match against GDPR request.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by unicornporn on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:06AM
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Quite a bit. You'd have to do a subject access request to get closer to the truth.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by gaius on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:49AM
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You also need to remove the Facebook tracking pixels they have embedded in it.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by _underflow_ on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:02AM
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For a moment I was briefly surprised, but then I remembered the company in question. No way that was accidental.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by yqh on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:35AM
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I've checked my own archive and they haven't embedded any tracking pixels. Don't spread nonsense.
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Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:33AM
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Disregarding the strange rant for a moment, is it purely for tracking purposes or does it just use their CDN for CSS, images etc?
(Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was tracking, this is Facebook after all, but there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to use a a CDN)
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by Jaruzel on Friday December 28, 2018 @12:11PM
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There's a bunch of absolute paths in the generated HTML that link to inline icons and other chaff. As I'm never actually logged into FB, they show up as broken images when you view your offline archive.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by nindalf on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:21AM
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> for some reason
Do share what exactly it was before accusing people of covering it up.
Re:Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile a...
by crankylinuxuser on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:40AM
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Have you not heard of AB testing?
It's certainly possible that one of the biggest arms of surveillance culture can AB test people on what they do with their exported FB profile.