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FB’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For

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Ok, I understand there's a limitation on the length of titles. But did you really have to resort to making Your into Ur?

Agreed. "Ur" could be removed completely and the title would still remain readable.

But the meaning would change completely. "Ur" is used here in the German sense, meaning "original" or "source". It also refers to the ancient Sumerian city, Ur. So the headline actually means "FB’s Plan To Automatically Share Original Ancient Sumerian Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For".

Thanks for explaining that. I misread it at first-- I thought it said FB's Plan To Automatically Share Nur Data..." where Nur is short for Nur Illahi, the divine ray of enlightenment, i.e. they were planning on sharing data on optical drives.

What a terrible misunderstanding that would have been. Cheers to you, good sir.

I dislike it when business agreements are changed unilaterally. (Think of Darth Vader speaking with Lando Calrissian.) Terms of service at a web site with authenticated login is a business agreement. A bit off topic but the only thing I like about FB is that it looks like an interesting application platform for 3rd party developers.

While true, the original business agreement often allows them to change unilaterally.

Facebook's public-by-default behavior towards privacy is one of the main reasons I've deleted my account. It's stupid and malicious, and they only get away with it because most of their users don't know better.

This could be really unfair to startups, depending on how hard it is to become a "partner."

Like, it'd suck to have your more well-financed competition (who happens to be buying lots of ads on Facebook) get the ability to automatically link up your friends as soon as you visit their site.

At least it's only general information...

... by which they mean everything until you explicitly say not to share something.

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