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I'm at work so I can't confirm, but isn't the default click behavior to open the link in a new tab/window? It would be a pretty big assumption to think that so

by Zikes 12y ago

I'm at work so I can't confirm, but isn't the default click behavior to open the link in a new tab/window? It would be a pretty big assumption to think that someone wouldn't leave that tab open for later, or multitask reading it and Liking their friends' status posts.

sp332 12y ago
Hm, that's true. I would guess that most people don't use the web that way, though. And this is all about averages, so as long as other people don't use Ghostery, Facebook will still edit your feed based on their behavior. The only solution is to get everyone to use Ghostery :)
tedunangst 12y ago
Can the Facebook tab not tell when it has focus?
- sp332 12y ago
  But it doesn't know if you left the other tab open in the background to read later (if that page doesn't have effective analytics because Ghostery blocked them).
  - troels 12y ago
    You're right, but with enough data I suspect that becomes a relatively small error source.
nql 12y ago
It is knowable whether the page was opened that way, by seeing if the browser environment is still around after the click. The analysis could just ignore that set of data.