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I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent you

by geuis 17y ago

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

ryanjmo 17y ago
That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name http://graph.facebook.com/name is <= the info that is available at http://facebook.com/name http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.
- thamer 17y ago
  My “graph” link is public, but my “public page” link is not. It might be because I don’t allow my profile to appear in public searches (non logged in), but still they made it visible to anyone in the graph API. I hope they add a privacy setting to change this.
- geuis 17y ago
  I don't like the fact that Facebook makes any of my data available and doesn't provide me options to make it private at will. I have my privacy settings turned all the way up for everything. Perhaps I, and others, simply would like to not have any of our data available in this manner.
  - dhimes 17y ago
    I agree with you. As of now, your only option is to not use fb.
    - koanarc 17y ago
      That's good advice. For anyone interested in taking it, see "How to permanently delete your Facebook account": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
- davetufts 17y ago
  I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.facebook.com/603069147 http://graph.facebook.com/603069147
  - fhars 17y ago
    Appending /picture?type=large to your graph page works, too. Uh, oh...
    - deleted 17y ago
      [deleted]
  - Torn 17y ago
    I can see the following as a logged-in facebook user, which is identical to what the graph api returns: http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png I'm not seeing a discrepancy here?
    - davetufts 17y ago
      Like I said, the discrepancy is if you're NOT logged in.
      - Torn 17y ago
        I'm not seeing an issue here though -- that profile information was readily available in html (if you have a facebook cookie) and is now even more accessible via json. In fact, the json api gives out less information than the html frontend (e.g. all 18 pages you currently follow).
        17y ago
veemjeem 17y ago
So you're able to get someone's facebook id and name? How useful is that? It seems about as useful as scraping web pages for random names & numbers. Might as well go to classmates.com and get a list of names there.
- jiaaro 17y ago
  name, id, AND full size profile picture

by geuis 17y ago

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

ryanjmo 17y ago

That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name http://graph.facebook.com/name is <= the info that is available at http://facebook.com/name http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.

thamer 17y ago
My “graph” link is public, but my “public page” link is not. It might be because I don’t allow my profile to appear in public searches (non logged in), but still they made it visible to anyone in the graph API. I hope they add a privacy setting to change this.
geuis 17y ago
I don't like the fact that Facebook makes any of my data available and doesn't provide me options to make it private at will. I have my privacy settings turned all the way up for everything. Perhaps I, and others, simply would like to not have any of our data available in this manner.
- dhimes 17y ago
  I agree with you. As of now, your only option is to not use fb.
  - koanarc 17y ago
    That's good advice. For anyone interested in taking it, see "How to permanently delete your Facebook account": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
davetufts 17y ago
I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.facebook.com/603069147 http://graph.facebook.com/603069147
- fhars 17y ago
  Appending /picture?type=large to your graph page works, too. Uh, oh...
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
- Torn 17y ago
  I can see the following as a logged-in facebook user, which is identical to what the graph api returns: http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png I'm not seeing a discrepancy here?
  - davetufts 17y ago
    Like I said, the discrepancy is if you're NOT logged in.
    - Torn 17y ago
      I'm not seeing an issue here though -- that profile information was readily available in html (if you have a facebook cookie) and is now even more accessible via json. In fact, the json api gives out less information than the html frontend (e.g. all 18 pages you currently follow).
      - 17y ago

veemjeem 17y ago

So you're able to get someone's facebook id and name? How useful is that? It seems about as useful as scraping web pages for random names & numbers. Might as well go to classmates.com and get a list of names there.

jiaaro 17y ago
name, id, AND full size profile picture