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Re:Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life by baddox on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @04:45PM (#9228570)
Why wouldn't you make a throwaway Facebook profile? My Facebook account was initially created as my legitimate account, but now I treat it as essentially a throwaway. It makes logging in to most random little sites extremely handy, and I see no measurable downside.
Re:Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life by WaxProlix on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @05:39PM (#9228876)
If you want to remain any kind of anonymous, it means logging into each facebook login-enabled site with a new, fresh fb account. Using one trash account might stop them from linking things to your 'real identity' (such as fb perceives it), but it still lets them link all of your activities together and build a profile. Persona linking from there isn't hard, based on usernames or email addresses used (see pipl and similar for examples of casual, publicly available version of these tools). But even if there's no persona/pseudonym linking algo going on, you're still being 'tracked'. It's not fully anonymous.
Re:Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life by beamatronic on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:15PM (#9229030)
Unless you clear your Facebook cookies each time you log out.
Re:Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life by amelius on Thursday March 19, 2015 @06:44AM (#9231087)
There are also in-browser tools that prevent cookies from being sent to third parties.