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Re:Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You L... by cpeterso on Thursday November 17, 2011 @06:25PM (#3249711)
> I started putting Facebook in another browser

In theory, using a separate browser is not adequate protection from tracking. The Flash Player's "Shared Objects" (aka Flash cookies) are stored in a common directory, so the same Flash data is accessible from any browser running as the same user. I do not believe Facebook's tracking is this nefarious, but the method would be quite easy to implement.

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Re:Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You L... by billiamram on Thursday November 17, 2011 @09:59PM (#3250389)
Disable flash in the browser that runs only facebook?
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Re:Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You L... by ams6110 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:39PM (#3250489)
I've gone a step further and disabled it across the board.
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Re:Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You L... by chunkyslink on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:23PM (#3250593)
Relevant. The Evercookie.

http://samy.pl/evercookie/

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