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> But it's still a greater degree of privacy than having it indexed and merged with other info Google may have. Sorry but I fail to understand the logic here:
by voidr 14y ago
> But it's still a greater degree of privacy than having it indexed and merged with other info Google may have.
Sorry but I fail to understand the logic here: If you put something on a blog or whatever, it's indexable by Google and other search engines, if you put it on Facebook, it's indexable by Facebook and it's partners.
If you post your data on Facebook it's searchable on Facebook(unless probably if it's marked private, that way it's only used for advertising), so basically if I want to add your data to my results, I just have to search twice, which is inconvenient but I wouldn't call it privacy. Heck I could probably write browser extension in a day that does this automatically.
> indexed and merged with other info Google may have
Facebook has your personal connections and a subset of your browser history, what can Google add to that to make it even creepier?
FYI: Bing incorporates the Facebook data, they have permission from Facebook, which means you have precisely zero extra security on Facebook.
But let's talk about security: do you really think your private stuff are really private on Facebook? If you want to control access to stuff, you are better off hosting a blog on a private server on an encrypted drive, that way your private info is really private.
> There's no monopoly since I can delete it and eventually FB will have to delete it too (now they hide it instantly).
You seem to confuse monopoly with consumer rights or control. If Facebook holds 90% of the social data in the world, it's a monopoly, period. Monopolies are illegal because they have the power to abuse. Also your deleted picture won't be hidden instantly, it will probably linger on a CDN for years to come. :)
> Not so on Google or when snippets are posted over and over again in blog after blog.
Are you implying that I can't copy paste your facebook post and repost it over and over again?
- loverobots 14y agoSo much ink spilled....for nothing. Share with: Just me > Friends > Groups I create > Friends of Friends > Everyone Lots of leeway. I specifically said that nothing I post there is secret, but I'd rather confine whatever I post to the group. The power is not as much in individual posts but on the ability to piece together sites I visits, searches, "friends" I have, what type of emails I get etc etc. When I delete a picture or comment, no doubt it will linger somewhere in backups but unless the FBI is looking for it's unlikely to be shown. You can copy my Facebook post if you see it. Scrappers for example will not and there is no way to link to it since almost all people will not see it. The real enemy of "Open Web" for Google are those Safari users that refuse third party cookies :) http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/google-under-fire-for-circumventing-safari-privacy-setting/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/google-under-fire-for-circu...
- tedunangst 14y agoSo what you're saying is that my Facebook data is visible in Bing? Do you have a link?