Facebook Disconnect

Re: Facebook Disconnect by barrkel on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:08AM (#3035212)

There's a fairly wide appreciation among technically aware people of just how deep Facebook is getting its tentacles into things. Sentiment has been turning anti-FB for quite some time; it's been aggravated by FB's blunders in the past, by defaulting to over-invasiveness, then dialing back in response to outcry. So whenever FB gets press for something that can be viewed in the same light, there's a lot of judging them by their past actions.

So while there may be an element of opportunism in covert anti-FB PR, it's working with dry kindling. There's real fire here, not just smoke.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by TallTalesOrTrue on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:33AM (#3035258)

Sometimes I get a feeling that the hivemind of HN is critical of anything that is not associated google. I could be wrong as I am a fairly new user. But that's just what I have observed in last few weeks.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by smokinn on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:59AM (#3035286)

I don't see what Google has to do with this. Google gets roasted just as well as any other company around here. I've seen several articles get upvoted about google+ being a ghost town, and other critical articles.

Just try googling site:news.ycombinator.com google

From the first page I see:

6 discussions that are basically neutral

1 positive (Google puts Japan quake tsunami warning on their search page)

1 mix of positive and negative (people arguing both positions) (Goodbye, Google App Engine)

2 negative (Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results, Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming" )

I've never noticed a leaning towards favoring Google here. If you were arguing that YC funded companies get preferential treatment then you might have a case but I don't think your "I get a feeling that the hivemind of HN is critical of anything that is not associated google" is correct at all.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by barrkel on Sunday September 25, 2011 @03:02AM (#3035290)

It's getting to the point with Google that I'm half-considering firewalling my day-to-day browser from my "real" Google account, and adblocking Google out of existence except when referred to by Google sites itself. I already block their analytics etc. whenever I can.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by click170 on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:54AM (#3035281)

If the Google+ Like button appeared on anywhere near as many sites as Facebook, I'd be concerned about Google too.

I'm kind of surprised NoScript doesn't have an option of disabling scripts on a site-by-site basis. Ergo, if I have two tabs open, Google+ and some other page containing a Google+ Like button, I should be able to enable Google scripts on only the Google+ page. As it stands, when a script from a domain is enabled, it is enabled for any and all tabs you have open. I think that behavior can be improved.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by franck on Sunday September 25, 2011 @05:57AM (#3035503)

I agree this would be a nice feature to have.

In the meantime, you can use the RequestPolicy add-on in order to block cross-domain requests to G+ in your other tabs. In this case, NoScript won't even be needed because the script won't be loaded at all.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by mike-cardwell on Sunday September 25, 2011 @07:24AM (#3035615)

I'd guess that Google Analytics and Google Adsense exist on more websites than Facebook like buttons, and they pose the exact same threat.

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by click170 on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:01PM (#3036307)

Touche!

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Re: Facebook Disconnect by skrebbel on Sunday September 25, 2011 @03:15AM (#3035304)

you,re forgetting about google adsense. google has been tracking you across the internets before fb even existed.

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