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lets all stop with all the fear mongering. Do you guys really believe that every time a site loads a facebook or twitter widget they aren't tracking you either

lets all stop with all the fear mongering. Do you guys really believe that every time a site loads a facebook or twitter widget they aren't tracking you either. I can name 1000 other trackers that sites actually do install and that do genuinely sell your information. There are a handful of widgets that do the same thing for twitter and facebook so lets just stop the bs.

jodrellblank 14y ago
"Because Facebook tracks you, mentioning Google's tracking is fearmongering bs". I don't follow your argument. I do, however, follow the like-button-blocker ShareMeNot https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sharemenot/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sharemenot/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
- angryasian 14y ago
  it is fear mongering because the entire point of the article is to point out another widget/tracker, when its absolutely nothing new. Event their +1 button probably does the same thing. So the author wants to obviously use googles name to get more page views when this is nothing new and has been done for years by facebook and twitter.
  - jodrellblank 14y ago
    But that's not the point. The point is claiming that Google took one existing open thing (RSS), killed it off, and replaced it with a Google-proprietary alternative. The spying agitating part is just side-complaining.
    - angryasian 14y ago
      What are you talking about rss is not killed off, ask the feedly team rss is still alive and well. Point me to any site and I will show you their rss feed. The reality is most sites aggregate their content using twitter, rss, facebook.. so they are encouraging you to aggregate it in the same way. Really we have an issue with that.
kevinpet 14y ago
I only sign in to Facebook in an incognito browser to minimize their ability to track me. The problem is that I currently use Google for real identity stuff. This seems to imply I'll need to do something like all my web browsing in Firefox, and use Google services in Chrome.
- angryasian 14y ago
  You can opt out. You can use something like ghostery that will block scripts. Google doesn't give away your information like Facebook does.
jlarocco 14y ago
Ghostery [1] can block most of those. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/ https://www.ghostery.com/

jodrellblank 14y ago

"Because Facebook tracks you, mentioning Google's tracking is fearmongering bs". I don't follow your argument. I do, however, follow the like-button-blocker ShareMeNot https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sharemenot/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sharemenot/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

angryasian 14y ago
it is fear mongering because the entire point of the article is to point out another widget/tracker, when its absolutely nothing new. Event their +1 button probably does the same thing. So the author wants to obviously use googles name to get more page views when this is nothing new and has been done for years by facebook and twitter.
- jodrellblank 14y ago
  But that's not the point. The point is claiming that Google took one existing open thing (RSS), killed it off, and replaced it with a Google-proprietary alternative. The spying agitating part is just side-complaining.
  - angryasian 14y ago
    What are you talking about rss is not killed off, ask the feedly team rss is still alive and well. Point me to any site and I will show you their rss feed. The reality is most sites aggregate their content using twitter, rss, facebook.. so they are encouraging you to aggregate it in the same way. Really we have an issue with that.

kevinpet 14y ago

I only sign in to Facebook in an incognito browser to minimize their ability to track me. The problem is that I currently use Google for real identity stuff. This seems to imply I'll need to do something like all my web browsing in Firefox, and use Google services in Chrome.

angryasian 14y ago
You can opt out. You can use something like ghostery that will block scripts. Google doesn't give away your information like Facebook does.

jlarocco 14y ago

Ghostery [1] can block most of those. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/ https://www.ghostery.com/