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Show HN: Hush, an "incognito mode for Facebook"
- redDragon 14y agopretty cool idea :D !
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoI'm pretty sure the web is already full of anonymous forums where you don't have to give up your identity by signing in with Facebook.
- true_religion 14y agoTrue, but this is for people who want to be anonymous on facebook.
- olenhad 14y agoThe idea is, that you want to make statements, but you want people you know to hear them as well. That's why we use facebook's social graph. :)
- darora 14y agoTrue. Our reasons for using Facebook were twofold- * It enables you to talk to your FB friends--a group whose opinion that you probably care about & respect--anonymously, so that they don't have to hold back or sugarcoat things. * It enables us to ensure a reasonably decent quality on the service, by [hopefully] avoiding too many bots or trolls.
- thesleeper 14y agoi say Yes.
- pbear 14y agoSuper awesome! Finally I can express my opinions without offending sponsors and the like.
- pbear 14y agoAwesome idea! Now I can make honest comments and opinions that won't offend the wrong people!
- davebees 14y agoDid you just make two separate comments praising this, both within two minutes of registering?
- instakill 14y agoThere look to be a lot of new accounts all praising this.
- olenhad 14y agoMy suspicion is that he got too used to hush...
- testing12341234 14y agoPossibly some astroturfing to get this pushed to the front page. Edit: Which has apparently worked.
- pbear 14y agoSorry about that. I'm new to this and it looked like my first posting did not get through so I posted again. My bad.
- slig 14y agoBy logging with fb, your app will have at least my user id and email. Any data breach on your side and all the "anonymous" posts are not so anonymous anymore.
- olenhad 14y agoWe can assure you from our side, that the way the app is structured, no part aside from login, uses facebook's user ids. We've tried to be very strict about that.
- synor 14y agoHow do you filter my "own" posts without correlating my Facebook id with a post-author id?
- olenhad 14y agoAll user associated data uses our own user ids, not facebook's ids. That includes post author ids.
- synor 14y agoYour system seems to be able to correlate the FB id and user id on login to filter my own posts and aggregate my friends postings. Am I wrong to assume that this ability might enable de-anonymization of postings after a server compromise?
- darora 14y agoNo, you're correct in that assumption. In case of a complete server breach, that would indeed allow for de-anonymization of posts.
- kghose 14y agoI'm sorry, it's a bit early in the morning for me. I browsed the 'about' page and could not understand what the application DOES. I am not about to log into facebook through some application somebody put up randomly on the internet just yet, simply to see for myself. So, to get me started what does this application do? Thanks!
- darora 14y agoWell, quite simply, you can anonymously[1] discuss things with your Facebook friends (or the whole world, if you'd like). [1]: That is, apart from the login and pulling in your list of friends so as to populate your "Friends' feed", we don't use Facebook IDs or names at all.
- kghose 14y agoThanks. What is the identity that shows up on the friend's feed? Is it a constant one so that it can be blocked if needed? If one of your friends goes 'rogue' and starts to spam/harrass you through this will you have to systematically unfriend everyone till you find the culprit? Why would you want to have an anonymous conversation on facebook anyway? Sorry, don't get it.
- darora 14y agoThe friends' feed (or any other place, for that matter) doesn't show any identities. For "rogue" friends, we have on our roadmap a mechanism to "flag" users for a review of their postings. That'd trigger an admin banning them if necessary. The facebook component, is intended to be for a couple of things. Firstly, to allow you to restrict your discussion to just your friends (there are several scenarios in which you'd like their opinions, but you suspect they might not be completely honest with you if you knew who they were). Second, it allows us to be able to keep out bots en masse. The assumption being, of course, that Facebook polices its user-base to keep them out. In turn, the general quality of the discussions stays decent (well, for an anonymous platform, at least).
- chinab91 14y agonice work!
- sarhus 14y agoyou should give the possibility to sign up without a facebook account.
- darora 14y agoTo be honest, without the facebook integration of being able to talk to _your friends_, there are-as has been pointed out-far too many anonymous forums already.
- sarhus 14y agoAnd that's ok. But you'd like to test: 1) how many people would sign up without a facebook account? 2) how many of them could you "convert" and sign-in again with facebook? (saying something like "ok..now, how about you use your facebook account to [blabla] with your friends on facebook? I'd say people are more willing to give it a try and see how it looks without passing facebook credentials first... That's just my hint..
- darora 14y agoHmm. I'm beginning to suspect that you're right. We'll be looking into implementing this. Thanks
- Osmium 14y agoWhat I'd really like is an extension for a Facebook "read-only" mode, so I can leave myself logged in without worrying about accidentally clicking a "like" button somewhere.
- instakill 14y agoWhat's with the astro-turfing comments in this thread?
- jklio 14y agoThis is the second time I've seen astro-turfing on HN in as many weeks. On the following thread there were hilariously bad (registered within the hour, first comment on the product "wow great!") fake accounts. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682896 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682896
- laurenceputra 14y ago4chan with facebook login?
- smutticus 14y agoI use an incognito mode for Facebook. It's called not having a FB account and not allowing any javascript from their domains to run in my browser. Just quit FB if you care about your privacy. Why go to such lengths to avoid being exploited by a service designed to exploit you? Just stop using it.
- alisnic 14y agoThe contrast and font size of this site are a total disaster, my eyes are bleeding.
- fudged71 14y agoMost people won't understand what "Flavoured Markdown" means.
- dariuscheung 14y agonow we can all bitch about that friend together digitally.