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Also, the "View As" functionality has been "temporarily" disabled months ago because of a security issue, never to appear again. "View As" was a vital tool to
by donquichotte 8y ago
Also, the "View As" functionality has been "temporarily" disabled months ago because of a security issue, never to appear again.
"View As" was a vital tool to assess what data is shared with whom, and guarding one's privacy is harder without it.
- jolesf 8y agowondered when or if they would bring this back
- TallGuyShort 8y agoI even just wish they had a simpler "View As non-friend" feature.
- rhizome 8y agoI wouldn't be surprised if FB doesn't have a concept of "non-friend." People are either friends or friends you haven't met yet.
- anticensor 8y agoFB does have a concept of enemy, though. Which is implemented as communication embargo.
- acct1771 8y agoNah, those are "old friends".
- anticensor 8y agoYou can also block people who are not your friends.
- chaostheory 8y agoYeah Google+ had that when it asked you to categorize your contacts into friends, coworkers, family, and acquaintances.
- TallGuyShort 8y agoAnd what's more, is that some security settings can be set to "friends of friends", now that I think about it.
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- nabnob 8y agoCouldn't you just view your profile while logged out? Or using a browser in incognito mode?
- marijnz 8y agoThere's a more limited view if you're not logged in with an account. You could create another account just for this though..
- TallGuyShort 8y agoNo, you have to either make a fake account or get a friend to show you their view when you temporarily unfriend them. If your profile is moderately locked down you can't view much if you're logged out completely. So there's no good way to quickly see everything about you that's visible to anyone on Facebook.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoImpersonation code is some of the worst and scariest to write. I've seen advisory after advisory just on user impersonation. Just no. Don't implement. If you want to impersonate, use a private session or have users you control do the testing.
- rhizome 8y agoThis is why it took Microsoft 20 years to write 'runas.' Privilege elevation is easy, privilege-shedding is hard, and probably magnitudes more difficult when the OS didn't grow up with it like Unix has.