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Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Leave it to Zuckerberg by Antisyzygy · · 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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    1. Re:Leave it to Zuckerberg by fortapocalypse · · Score: 2, Funny

      hes has no principals.

      That is because he's not in school anymore.

    2. Re:Leave it to Zuckerberg by shadowfaxcrx · · Score: 2

      The issue that I'm having is the reverse of what you guys are talking about. Apparently with the new timeline update or whatever the hell they're calling it, Facebook will integrate with certain websites such that if I go to an enabled site, it's automatically posted to my timeline that I went there.

      Dunno about you guys, but I don't necessarily want all of my fb friends list potentially seeing every site I go to. I signed up for Facebook to keep in contact with people that I don't get to see on a regular basis, not to involuntarily vomit up every minute detail of my life to them.

      So Google might track me, but Google is a faceless entity that doesn't give much of a damn about me personally. There is anonymity in huge numbers. For Google, I'm one of millions. They can't possibly drill down to tracking me as individually as conspiracy theorists are afraid of. On the other hand, Facebook forcing people who actually know me to track me as aggressively as Google does is out of line.

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    3. Re:Leave it to Zuckerberg by Caerdwyn · · Score: 2

      Amazon sells books and rice-steamers and USB cables.

      Facebook and Google sell YOU. They sell your eyes and your habits and your desires and your prejudices to anyone and everyone to do with as they please.

      One is more nefarious and subject to abuse than the other.

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  2. How do so many IT managers master this talk by Riceballsan · · 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".

    1. Re:How do so many IT managers master this talk by ackthpt · · Score: 2

      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".

      If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to Like it, does it matter?

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  3. Re:meh by kefkahax · · Score: 2

    I was just trying to point out the "Hey, hey, look at this huge issue!" (as if you're facebook information wasn't going to leak eventually anyway, doesn't everyone understand that once it's on the internet, it's there to stay?). And, the response, "Oh, no, no. That's not and issue." (Then duck off and go fix it.)

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  4. Not worried by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be moving over to Google+, where I know they won't spy on me. ;) ;)

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  5. Duh by Moheeheeko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Using a service like facebook for free? news flash: You aren't the consumer, you are THE PRODUCT.

  6. Re:Right... by _0xd0ad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This implies that it was doing something that Facebook didn't want it to do.

    It was: Generating bad publicity.