Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon

Re:Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate w... by jballs on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:30PM (#9422492)

So we are tracked by facebook if we are logged in and see the like button on a different page. Does this mean that other sites are doing the same, if we see a button for their sites, like twitter or p interest? Or is facebook the main perpetrator here?

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Re:Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate w... by epistasis on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:05PM (#9422776)

I don't know about Twitter or Pinterest's tracking, but I do know that most ad networks will also track you as much as they can between all the sites.

There are several products that help deal with this, but they don't get nearly enough attention. The one I'm familiar with is PrivacyFix [1], but there are several others that should also be investigated if this matters to you.

[1] https://www.privacyfix.com/start/install

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Re:Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate w... by themodelplumber on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:34PM (#9422534)

They're at least passively tracking, if not actively tracking. Your browser visits those pages and requests files from their server that contain the relevant code. And your browser sends along certain information in order to make that request. And this includes widgets like the list of a user's Pins or Tweets or whatever, not just sharing buttons.

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