Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How(fastcompany.com)

26 pointsby urlwolf16 anni fa11 comments

Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How

http://www.fastcompany.com/1624745/time-to-audit-your-facebook-privacy-settings

4 comments

An easier solution is to simply treat Facebook as 100% public. Don't post anything you don't want representing you. Then who cares if Facebook sells all of it's data to the highest bidder?

retube16 anni fa

This is missing a big issue: it's not jsut about what YOU post, but what others post about you.

ElbertF16 anni fa

For me it's more about my online behavior than my data. I don't want YouTube to tell my Facebook friends what I've been watching. I don't want Amazon to advertise with my profile picture because I bought a book my girlfriend might be interested in. That's where this is going and why I canceled my account.

callahad16 anni fa

I haven't read the terms around the Instant Personalization, but it could be used to track users' behavioral data across sites. That's what I'm worried about, not the static contents of my profiel.

natrius16 anni fa

If you don't want your behavior to be tracked across sites, you should probably disable cookies.

_delirium16 anni fa

Just disabling third-party cookies would be enough for most things, and would break fewer sites. For an even more fine-grained approach, a lot of the AdBlock blocklists have webbug/tracking domains in addition to ad servers.

cdr16 anni fa

That's not how I use facebook nor how I want to use facebook. Easier maybe, desirable no.

scott_s16 anni fa

Then what you want is not realistic. The internet is inherently public. Private spaces on it are a fiction.

saikat16 anni fa

I feel like I JUST finished updating my privacy settings, only to have to do it again. I don't even use Facebook that much, and it's annoying to have to think about/waste time figuring out about my privacy settings when I don't really care to - especially now that these settings are encroaching on the rest of my Internet experience.

Getting rid of my Facebook account is feeling like the simpler solution, but I'm not even sure that solves the problem anymore.

thisisnotmyname16 anni fa

Even easier, if you run the firefox plugin noscript, instant personalization is disabled for you automatically.

ryanhuff16 anni fa

Don't forget to block their Like iframes too.

jdm16 anni fa