Marmor Friend Network

1 year ago

@Friendica Support @Open Web

Since I saw a post about Ghostery (Firefox addon) here on Friendica, I use it on all computers.
Now I am shocked to see, that it found some "Facebook Social Graph" here on Friendica!! How can this be? Is it inside a post from Facebook maybe?

@friendica support @open web

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Myrddin Lailoken

1 year ago

What!?

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

I believe it comes from photographs of Facebook contacts.

The frustrating part is that the social graph is forced into your network if any of your contacts make their Facebook wall public.

Likewise, you get Google Analytics from some embedded content too.

In this case, people are the problem.

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

They are pix from Facebook - pix from people who comment in your FB contacts' threads (but aren't among your contacts themselves). These are served from the social graph servers.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ah that's a shame... I'm waiting for the day where I can push the button "Shut all doors" in the Friendica Settings and all those spying pixels and cookies are just turned off (without missing the content of course :D)

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

If your friends are determined to make sure something nasty ends up in your network, then no software can mitigate it completely.

We need more education of people who enjoy being spied on, and we need to frown more prominently at people who really should know better.

And we need an alternative to YouTube.

Arto

1 year ago

Regarding YouTube, would MediaGoblin offer an alternative platform? Could be self-hosted, kind of like the Friendica model...?