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The reason I never give fb my mobile is if you use a pseudonym account, it will suggest your profile as a friend to anyone who has your mobile in their phone co
by hnzix 8y ago
The reason I never give fb my mobile is if you use a pseudonym account, it will suggest your profile as a friend to anyone who has your mobile in their phone contact list (eg ex-partners, stalkers, employers, drug dealers). Found that one out the hard way.
I know Zuck wants me to preemptively upload my nudes, but still.
- black_puppydog 8y agoLucky you already have your account. These days you can sign up for one without a phone number, but then you flat-out can't sign in without giving one.
- lysp 8y agoYou can even do a search by mobile number, by typing a mobile number into the search without pressing enter. Depending on the owner's security settings, Facebook will often suggest the profile of the person in the type-aheaded search results.
- muglug 8y agoI believe they removed this feature a couple of months ago.
- rickdg 8y agoFB's terms of service do not allow pseudonym accounts.
- paulie_a 8y agoDo people honestly give a shit about terms of service?
- jkaplowitz 8y agoYes. Especially ones with broad arbitration clauses, and double especially ones where your access to the courts is determined by whether you opt out within a short time period after agreeing to them. These are frighteningly common, typically enforceable in the US even for consumers, and typically enforceable in most countries for even small business customers (though rarely for consumers in much of Canada and Europe if the vendor has enough ties to the area for local consumer protection law to apply and you win the race to the courthouse).
- ageitgey 8y agoThis is basically how FBI Director Comey's secret Instagram account (and thus Twitter account) was unmasked. But it was even worse - you are suggested to 3rd party people who just follow the people who know you: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-1793843641 https://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-t...
- ninit3 8y agoYep, something similar I discovered recently that if you sign up to Instagram with somebody's email that they use on Facebook then within a day or two you'll start to see all of their friends from Facebook whom are also on Instagram in your recommended follows. All of this happens without email verification..
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago> All of this happens without email verification This has very interesting consequences...
- baybal2 8y agoWhoa... so it was around in the open since around 2013, and still not fixed? 0_0
- pishpash 8y agoAlmost every shop does this, no verification before use. ffs, at least provide a "report not mine" function.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoI've only ever seen a "report not mine" function from Google. Where else have you seen it? I am not on FB/LinkedIn/most similar ones, so I may be missing examples.
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- denzil_correa 8y ago> The reason I never give fb my mobile Here's the issue with it. You might not give it but your friends would. Therefore, this strategy is pretty useless as network effects kick in.
- tumetab1 8y agoTIP which I discovered by accident: create a bogus account with your phone number. Facebook will remove the phone number from your account when you do that. You can also use that to check who are your friend who gave FB your phone number.
- denzil_correa 8y ago> You can also use that to check who are your friend who gave FB your phone number. Can you explain further how this will work?
- ashwinikd 8y agoProbably by suggesting users who have your number as friends.
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- 0x262d 8y agothis is an interesting idea but probably one already-implemented feature from being circumvented