Facebook is Watching You

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7 pointsjenius4 comments

Which is why:

1) I use Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/, thanks to someone who pointed it on HN. Much appreciated! Now FaceBook's webbugs are largely blocked.

2) I log out when I leave FB.

3) I delete FB cookies regularly.

BTW, I looked for an e-mail link or "comment" feature for the author, Jeff Escalante, and couldn't find one. Instead I'd have to find him on Twitter, I guess. So much for (relative) privacy.

Thanks for the link, this is great!

Alternatively, I use the "Incognito" mode in Chrome (FF has the private browsing mode, but unfortunately there, you can either be in that mode, or the regular one, but not both).

I am still to figure out if this helps me in anyway, but it's a start ... :-/

The stuff you mentioned is common knowledge.

Once Facebook finds a way to make use of all that unstructured data that each user creates their targeting will get so much better.

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