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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by jey on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @02:18PM (#86370)
"full opt-out" in the title is very misleading. They are disabling the mini-feed and newsfeed stories only! FB still gets the info on your browsing/buying habits by default, unless you would click the link to not share the info with facebook every time you make a purchase.
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by dcurtis on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @02:50PM (#86385)
If you're so paranoid, why do you shop at places that would willfully send your information to a site like Facebook?

Don't the partner sites have to reach out and send the information to Facebook, rather the the other way around?

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by brlewis on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @02:36PM (#86380)
From the article: "If you select that you don't want to share some Beacon actions or if you turn off Beacon, then Facebook won't store those actions even when partners send them to Facebook."
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by karthikv on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @05:12PM (#86420)
It says it won't "store" those actions sent by the partners. Its not clear if they will "use" that information in any other way.
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