Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures

Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by maeon3 on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:42AM (#2957164)

I forgot how when I click a like button on a foreign page, face book is keeping data about what pages I am visiting and (who,what,when,where,how) and is selling that click data about me to the highest bidder (and I cant turn it off) to advertisers or worse government agencies doing warrent-less surveillance.

I'm never clicking a facebook like button again until I can turn off user website tracking.

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by rlpb on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:44AM (#2957167)

You don't even need to click the like button. Facebook get the information as soon as you view the foreign page.

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by hbar on Saturday September 03, 2011 @04:34PM (#2958062)

If you use Chrome(-ium), there's an extension for that. I believe there is an equivalent FF extension out there as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by code_duck on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:52AM (#2957178)

People, including myself, seem to forget that Google has a far more pervasive network that has been operating for much longer.

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by FJCruiser79 on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:50AM (#2957172)

By 'selling that click data about me' you realize that the only monetization tool Facebook has is a anonymized and aggregated ads tool...it doesn't sell click data.

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by igy on Saturday September 03, 2011 @01:37PM (#2957706)

I find there's a general perception (especially Slashdot) that this isn't the case, I'm not sure why given that Facebook's been fairly explicit about it in the past

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