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October 30, 2013

Facebook Might Soon Track Your Cursor On The Screen

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The social network may start collecting data on minute user interactions with its content, such as how long a user’s cursor hovers over a certain part of its website, or whether a user’s newsfeed is visible at a given moment on the screen of his or her mobile phone, Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin said Tuesday during an interview. Facebook Considers Vast Increase in Data Collection - The CIO Report - WSJ

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 30, 2013 11:07 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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block facebook with your hosts file.
Of course if you are foolish enough to use facebook then you wont be able to after you add facebook to your host file.


Here is a an example. If you don't know what a host file is, well you are on your own.

# Block Facebook
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 facebook.net

Posted by: Potsie at October 30, 2013 12:30 PM

So Facebook will know I'm a curmudgeonly old right wing bastard who rides in a bicycle gang. And I sometimes click links with sexy chicks in them. What are they gonna' do? Tell my wife?

JWM

Posted by: jwm at October 30, 2013 1:46 PM

Nice photoshop. Snicker...

Posted by: pbird at October 30, 2013 2:58 PM

I see a future in front end programs that block all that data from Facebook and other sites such as Amazon and Google.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 31, 2013 3:26 PM

Christopher, apparently you would pay for something you can do for free. BTW google and facebook are embedded into most websites. Those text boxes where you enter a word and a number? That is a google product.

Posted by: Potsie at October 31, 2013 4:03 PM

Potsie: didn't know that, although I am not surprised. Heck, they're floating barges off the Cali coast and that's just some of the stuff we see. Me and the missus, we got modest cable TV and I reckon they know how many times we watch NCIS and hmm, why don't these folks watch Dancing with the Goofballs? It is very hard if not impossible to stay off the radar. Spies and some crims do it but what kind of life is that? We all ain't James Bond with endless financing and so forth. Witness Protection Program my arse. Nobody. Is. Invisible.

Posted by: chasmatic at October 31, 2013 7:29 PM

Potsie I don't want Facebook expunged from my computer, I just want to stop it from spying the way they like to.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 31, 2013 9:37 PM

A good starting point is: Ghostery, Adblock Plus, and NoScript addons for Firefox.

Search through Startpage via proxy.

If ya don't want mommy dearest to know your liberty-minded shit, keep it to yourself or only 'plot' face-to-face with people who've earned your trust.

Don't willingly give the fuckers that be ANYTHING but grief and misinformation to muck up their infernal machine.

Garbage in ---> garbage out.

Posted by: monkeyfan at November 1, 2013 7:43 AM

want to get paid just to browse the net? check out

Posted by: Katherine Imfeld at December 2, 2013 3:35 PM

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