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Wouldn't adding hashed query strings to urls linking to sites outside of Facebook circumvent any effort put into containing de-anonymizing data? The wrong hash
by chicob 9y ago
Wouldn't adding hashed query strings to urls linking to sites outside of Facebook circumvent any effort put into containing de-anonymizing data? The wrong hash would lead nowhere, and the right one would give you away.
Facebook would only have to edit a specific field in users' posts' urls related to certain domains, so that different users access unique urls that link them to Facebook in a specific context.
Once outside the container, a user is traceable back to a Facebook profile.
I don't know if this is possible, but people don't really check urls, let alone human-unreadable ones.
I imagine that this could break navigation, but directing wrong queries to a default page would solve this. Anyway, they could still try their luck.
- groovecoder 9y agoThat's an interesting threat model for this particular defense. Cliqz has done some interesting research in this area of detecting (and stripping) unsafe data elements. http://josepmpujol.net/public/papers/pujolTrackingTheTrackers.pdf http://josepmpujol.net/public/papers/pujolTrackingTheTracker...
- dannyw 9y agoI hope that gets Facebook fined 4% of their turnover for violating the GDPR. If most users don't pay attention to URLs (which is true), users cannot give informed consent, a core tenant of GDPR.