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> it even automatically saved the identified user's profile pic from facebook into their database. Please share more information. Did that require the user t

> it even automatically saved the identified user's profile pic from facebook into their database. Please share more information. Did that require the user to be logged into FB?

zed88 7y ago
Here is a hint https://docs.fullcontact.com/#enrich-api https://docs.fullcontact.com/#enrich-api
- Aromasin 7y ago
  As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this point though, all I feel I can do as a hapless consumer is to desensitize myself to said violation. I use a VPN, Pi-Hole, Ghostery and Firefox. All of these a relatively recent additions though, so if a website can get my email and that links to an already existing database of all my collected data up to that point, I'm buggered anyway.
  - pure-awesome 7y ago
    Just making sure you're aware of the discussion around Ghostery that's happened here on HackerNews, so you can make an informed decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827
    - Aromasin 7y ago
      F-ing wonderful. Almost reaffirming the inevitability of it all really. Back to uBlock it is. Thanks for the heads up.
      - lotsofpulp 7y ago
        Not ublock, you need to use ublock origin.
        kazagistar 7y ago
        How about AdNausium for the extra middle finger.
- pdkl95 7y ago
  From this reprehensible API, "enriching" a simple candidate key (e.g. email addr) (slightly edited for brevity): https://docs.fullcontact.com/#data-add-ons https://docs.fullcontact.com/#data-add-ons { "gender": "Male", "name": { "given": "Johnathan", "family": "Doe", "middle": "David", "prefix": "Mr", "suffix": "Jr", "nickname": "John" }, "age": { "birthday": { "year": 1980, "month": 1, "day": 10 }, "range": "35-44", "value": 37 }, "locations": [ { "label": "deduced", "formatted": "Denver, Colorado, United States" } ], "education": [ { "name": "State University", "degree": "Masters Degree of Automation", "end": { "year": 1998 } } ], "employment": [ { "name": "ACME, Inc", "domain": "http://www.example.com", "current": false, "title": "Widget Maker", "start": { "year": 2010, "month": 6, "day": 1 }, "end": { "year": 2015, "month": 10, "day": 15 } } ], "interests": [ { "name": "Quilting", "affinity": "HIGH", "category": "hobbies" } ] } edit: Note the arrays, which presumably can return multiple records.

> it even automatically saved the identified user's profile pic from facebook into their database. Please share more information. Did that require the user to be logged into FB?

zed88 7y ago

Here is a hint https://docs.fullcontact.com/#enrich-api https://docs.fullcontact.com/#enrich-api

Aromasin 7y ago
As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this point though, all I feel I can do as a hapless consumer is to desensitize myself to said violation. I use a VPN, Pi-Hole, Ghostery and Firefox. All of these a relatively recent additions though, so if a website can get my email and that links to an already existing database of all my collected data up to that point, I'm buggered anyway.
- pure-awesome 7y ago
  Just making sure you're aware of the discussion around Ghostery that's happened here on HackerNews, so you can make an informed decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827
  - Aromasin 7y ago
    F-ing wonderful. Almost reaffirming the inevitability of it all really. Back to uBlock it is. Thanks for the heads up.
    - lotsofpulp 7y ago
      Not ublock, you need to use ublock origin.
      - kazagistar 7y ago
        How about AdNausium for the extra middle finger.
pdkl95 7y ago
From this reprehensible API, "enriching" a simple candidate key (e.g. email addr) (slightly edited for brevity): https://docs.fullcontact.com/#data-add-ons https://docs.fullcontact.com/#data-add-ons { "gender": "Male", "name": { "given": "Johnathan", "family": "Doe", "middle": "David", "prefix": "Mr", "suffix": "Jr", "nickname": "John" }, "age": { "birthday": { "year": 1980, "month": 1, "day": 10 }, "range": "35-44", "value": 37 }, "locations": [ { "label": "deduced", "formatted": "Denver, Colorado, United States" } ], "education": [ { "name": "State University", "degree": "Masters Degree of Automation", "end": { "year": 1998 } } ], "employment": [ { "name": "ACME, Inc", "domain": "http://www.example.com", "current": false, "title": "Widget Maker", "start": { "year": 2010, "month": 6, "day": 1 }, "end": { "year": 2015, "month": 10, "day": 15 } } ], "interests": [ { "name": "Quilting", "affinity": "HIGH", "category": "hobbies" } ] } edit: Note the arrays, which presumably can return multiple records.