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Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:48AM from the crumble-less dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over the weekend, self-proclaimed hacker Nik Cubrilovic accused Facebook of tracking its users even if they log out of the social network. The company responded by denying the claims and offering an explanation as to why its cookies behave the way they do. Now, Cubrilovic says Facebook has made changes to the logout process, and detailed what each cookie is responsible for."

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Leave it to Zuckerberg by Antisyzygy · 2011-09-27 06:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

Zuckerberg is a fucking asshole, he's not a genius like the show portrays him, and hes has no principals.

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How do so many IT managers master this talk by Riceballsan · 2011-09-27 06:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

First off we never did it, secondly we've stopped doing it. If I am ever taken to court for theft that's what I'll try, "Your honor first of all I never stole anything, secondly I just gave it all back and won't do it again".
Duh by Moheeheeko · 2011-09-27 06:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

Using a service like facebook for free? news flash: You aren't the consumer, you are THE PRODUCT.
Re:Right... by _0xd0ad · 2011-09-27 06:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

This implies that it was doing something that Facebook didn't want it to do.
It was: Generating bad publicity.