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Not to make you paranoid, but it isn't just Facebook Connect. All of those "Like" buttons scattered around the internet are iframes loaded from Facebook's doma
by mdasen 16y ago
Not to make you paranoid, but it isn't just Facebook Connect. All of those "Like" buttons scattered around the internet are iframes loaded from Facebook's domain. When your browser requests the iframe from Facebook, it sends whatever cookies Facebook has set. So, even if you never interact with a "Like" button, Facebook knows that you at least went to that page. Even if you've signed out, Facebook could leave cookies that uniquely identify you as the last person who has logged in and track those.
If I willfully click something, I'm happy to send data to Facebook - it's my intention. If I'm just browsing, it bothers me to be sending data cross-site.
- logic 16y agoThis is the reason I manually logged out of Facebook on all machines I use, deleted the cookies (and blocked 3rd-party cookies in Chrome), and have now made a habit of logging into Facebook only when in incognito mode.
- _delirium 16y agoIf you use some variety of proxy or adblocker, you can block http://www.facebook.com/plugins* http://www.facebook.com/plugins* to block those iframes and the associated tracking.