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Open Source Utilities For Facebook Privacy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-see-me-now dept.

dward90 writes "Two online projects will scan and edit Facebook privacy settings for maximum protection: ReclaimPrivacy (reclaimprivacy.org) and SaveFace (untangle.com). The article says: 'Several new applications have launched this week that are designed to easily reset a Facebook member's privacy settings, following new changes from the company that make a sizable chunk of profile content public by default when it was once kept under lock and key.'"

3 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Other websites knowing your facebook account by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 4, Informative

    Account->privacy settings->Apps and websites Disable "Instant Personalization Pilot Program"

  2. Re:Other websites knowing your facebook account by TimmyDee · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wish it were that easy. I have the "Instant Personalization Pilot Program" disabled on my account, but FB Connect popped up on CNN Money this morning.

    What did I do? I specifically blocked any URL containing "fbconnect". Problem solved. OmniWeb let me do this using RegEx, but I'm sure the same can be done with AdBlock.

    --
    Per Square Mile, a blog about density
  3. Application Boundary Enforcer by johndoe42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even if you turn off instant personalization, facebook still knows every time you visit one of those partner sites. But NoScript (I leave scripts enabled globally) has a cute feature called Application Boundary Enforcer. Here's (some of) my config:

    Site .facebook.com
    Accept from .facebook.com
    Deny

    Site .fbcdn.net
    Accept from .facebook.com
    Accept from .fbcdn.net
    Deny

    Enjoy!