Facebook and the forum

[BongoHunter]

If I/you/we make post on a public forum, you've already made the decision to permanently share.

I agree with you with regards to public postings made by us being a matter of public and permanent record - no problem with that, its our choice to post in a public forum. Personally I think open and public debate and discussion is good for society - and not everyone in world has this luxury unfortunately.

My OcUK postings can be used to influence elections?! God damn I knew I was some hot ****.

As in individual - this kind of thing makes very little difference I agree, but in a small way yes, your browsing habits may have made there way into someone’s data set...

When you've got this data for millions of individuals across hundreds of thousands of websites it could be an incredibly powerful tool, that tool could be used for good, or bad - but that's something that "we" can't influence or control - the only influence or control we have is to deny access to the data in the first place IF we disagree with how that data ends up being used.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Am not an FB user myself - I just think they've been quite irresponsible and arent worthy of an association with such a great community

You're a day late.

 

[mrk]

I think its any FB button

Open firefox dev console and reload any thread while on the network tab - plenty of calls get fired off to www.facebook.com

False and incorrect!

 

[Pho]

@mrk, ublock blocks the tracking calls. Disable it and you'll see a fair few requests.

Whilst I think the Facebook icon should be removed from the forums (because it's pointless), I'm also not paranoid about them tracking what I visit

 

[mrk]

Just tried with uBlock off and still the same, no facebook hits!

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I would like to remove Facebook ties and other social media ties from all sites tbh because it slows down page loading i.e. you see "waiting for facebook.com" in the browser's status bar. Is there away of breaking the integration? Can Ghostery do it?

 

[Pho]

Just tried with uBlock off and still the same, no facebook hits!

Maybe you have something else blocking it, antivirus?

 

[asim18]

Can I have a quick synopsis of what will be achieved by removing FB 'stuff' ......if possible.

It will delay completion of the AI which destroys humanity by a a few days to a few hours depending on how many people are willing to stop feeding data to facebook et al.

Also, I don't understand why you would pick a forum software in which data collection is so deeply rooted. I'm sure there must be a simple switch somewhere in the admin control panel which turns off all facebook data collection.

If there isn't such option that's pretty messed up, makes it look like Facebook has teamed up with forum software providers to deeply root their data collection initiatives into forum software without options to disable.

 

[Thekwango]

I agree with you with regards to public postings made by us being a matter of public and permanent record - no problem with that

the only influence or control we have is to deny access to the data in the first place IF we disagree with how that data ends up being used.

and the only way then to deny access is to not post on a public forum?

It will delay completion of the AI which destroys humanity by a a few days to a few hours depending on how many people are willing to stop feeding data to facebook et al.

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so not only can my forum posts influence major elections, they will also cause the complete destruction of humanity?

I am some badass mofo...

 

[BongoHunter]

and the only way then to deny access is to not post on a public forum?​

Its not the posting - its what you read

E.G You might not ever post, but do you want it known your hitting the babes thread every 15 mins?

 

[Thekwango]

Its not the posting - its what you read

E.G You might not ever post, but do you want it known your hitting the babes thread every 15 mins?

Why would I care about it knowing I was hitting the babes thread every 15minutes?

My masturbatory tendencies are not something I'm in any way ashamed of.

 

[BongoHunter]

Why would I care about it knowing I was hitting the babes thread every 15minutes?

My masturbatory tendencies are not something I'm in any way ashamed of.

OK maybe I picked a poor example - but to many people privacy matters, E.G what if you doing some research on something deeply personal and embarrasing? Do you want the possibility of this being linked to your real world identity?

 

[Kronos]

Can anyone think of a single time when they've used that feature?

I did not know such a thing existed, where I would find it, and it's useful purpose if I did?

 

[Thekwango]

OK maybe I picked a poor example - but to many people privacy matters, E.G what if you doing some research on something deeply personal and embarrasing? Do you want the possibility of this being linked to your real world identity?

If I was doing something (research for example ) that I felt needed to be kept completely private from my real world identity I would be using a throw-away account.

 

[BongoHunter]

If I was doing something (research for example ) that I felt needed to be kept completely private from my real world identity I would be using a throw-away account.

And there's the gotcha - if you used your regular browser and just one of the pages you hit has one of these buttons - that's it - the link can be made.

 

[Puzzled]

Would be refreshing if this site took a stance and blocked all the social media gumpf.

Personally I'm tired of all the tracking of users across sites just to sell me more rubbish. Sure track me if I'm using the fb site but the way they track us across pretty much everything now is just too intrusive.

Yes I know google do it and loads of others but why is it accepted as the way the internet works. The data obviously does have value or these companies wouldn't spend so much on collecting it, so why give it away so freely.

 

[jpaul]

.. why waste memory/cpu-cycles, blocked it years ago along with other undesirables twitter/threadloom

with firefox/noscript

 

[Thekwango]

And there's the gotcha - if you used your regular browser and just one of the pages you hit has one of these buttons - that's it - the link can be made.

what link?

 

[mrk]

Maybe you have something else blocking it, antivirus?

I use Windows Defender, so doubt it's that!

Weird, not that I'm complaining

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Just had a nose at Firefox extensions and this looks handy:

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

As well as Firefox's in-built private browsing, the above can run multiple sessions inside of the browser. They used their main example of separating work-related from non work-related. If social media was ring-fenced inside of one sessions, the rest of the browsing could be in the other session?