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Re:Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social netwo... by tim333 on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:25AM (#9464188)
Meh - I'm on facebook all the time. Maybe they track my not very interesting interests and people use them to show ads which uBlock then blocks. His "flagrant disrespect and violation of my human privacy" doesn't really bother me. If I was doing anything I wanted to keep private I wouldn't do it on facebook - I just assume stuff on facebook is semi public. I'm not sure quite what the big problem is.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social netwo... by sqeaky on Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:13PM (#9465968)
Your notion that you can simply maintain privacy by not using facebook is part of the problem.

For a long time facebook tracked people using flash cookies (also called Local Shared Objects) to track people with opinions flawed like your own around various website that are not facebook.

What if they use some more devious tricks now? You might say that you use noscript, adblock or something else, but what about profiling you based information created by you browser. Browser fingerprinting - https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

I would rather simply avoid facebook and deal with people without a history of ethical issues.

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