<p><a href=“https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec[/url]”>https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec</a></p>
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<p>Good link. Facebook cannot be trusted with your information.</p>
<p>Agreed. It is amazing that they get away with repeated lapses on privacy. I hope now that more “serious” people are starting to use FB, there will be more scrutiny in that regard.</p>
<p>I just read about the real use of “like” buttons on other sites, and the fact that they track who comes to a site, and send the information to Facebook, whether or not you click on them, and whether or not you are a member of FB. Seems unbelievable, but apparently true.</p>
<p>[Facebook</a> ‘Like’ button draws privacy scrutiny | Politics and Law - CNET News](<a href=“http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006532-38.html]Facebook”>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006532-38.html)</p>
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<p>Is this the same thing you’re talking about?</p>
<p>What makes me pause about the solution offered on this thread, is that first, the program taht blocks this is in itself an unknown quantity to me, and secondly, it requires me to download and use Google Chrome. I trust Google only a smidgeon more than FB, and I have to wonder if this is somehow to move me and my info over there. But, that may be my paranoia!</p>
<p>I put my FB account in hibernation a few months ago just for these reasons. Bugs the bajeebers out of me! I constantly play catch up with new security features on my kids accounts. They gladly let me on their accounts to do it so they don’t have to. Every time I go on I spend a half hour deleting ‘applications’ that could potentially give out their info. No matter how tight their settings are, things always seem to attach to their accounts. </p>
<p>I’m with garland in that I don’t trust google much either. I haven’t researched this ‘patch’ so it may be great. I’m just not a fan of google.</p>
<p>Google does not pimp out your data the way FB does and Google retains data anonymously and then deletes it after a year or two. Google Chrome has a screen that permits you to do web browsing and no one can track your searches. That’s why I use Chrome. I don’t see Google as a problem. FB is a major problem. It is not a good company.</p>
<p>Chrome also has a dictionary extension that I love 
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<a href=“https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja[/url]”>https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja</a></p>
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<p>Why would anyone actually believe this?</p>
<p>I agree with tetrahedr0n. I heard a radio piece on this today, and one of the commentators said of Facebook “the bills are paid there by the advertisers. So the advertisers are the customers, not the users who are using the service for free. Decisions are made based on keeping those who pay the bills happy.”. Don’t know why we would think Google would be any different. They gave up their “do no evil” period when they started censoring in China to keep the government there happy…</p>
<p>Facebook definitely tracks everything everyone does on its site. I am not a Facebook user and I don’t have an account, never did.</p>
<p>Recently, someone sent me an email inviting me to join Facebook. I don’t know this person so I assume she made a mistake. I got another email from Facebook saying I might want to join since it listed 9 people that I might know who are on Facebook.</p>
<p>I knew 8 out of the 9 people Facebook listed from various sources, relatvie, ex-coworker, parents from kids school, etc. If someone random would send me such an email, I would freak out and call the police. How the @#$% does Facebook know that I know all these people!?!?</p>
<p>Facebook must have a giant database that keeps track of everything everyone of its users does. Some how it deduce that those people might know me, a non Facebook user.</p>
<p>I personally found this very scary.</p>
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<p>Well, because it is true. Google realizes it will lose all its customers if it misuses their data. Go to the Google privacy policy and there are ways to opt out of Google collecting even anonymous information from you. That is not true for Facebook.</p>
<p>BusyMei, when your friends joined FB, they probably clicked on a “Friend Finder” application FB offers. FB uses email addresses as their login ID. If your friends used the Friend Finder, they intentionally gave FB access to their email address book, to look for email addresses of existing FB users. Those users would then be put into a list so your friend could send those people a Friend Request if they wanted to. </p>
<p>Since FB went thru the address book, it got everyone’s email address, and probably invited everyone to join (or maybe it only invites people whose email addresses come up in multiple address books, who knows?)</p>
<p>The point is, Facebook probably couldn’t “deduce that these people might know me, a non-Facebook user.” What it COULD do is contact your email address AFTER your friends KNOWINGLY gave it access to their address book.</p>
<p>Lafalum84, I agree that what you described is one of the many ways that FB access info but it is not the only one. That is what I meant by “deduce”.</p>
<p>Given that I am in the software business myself and I have worked a lot with databases and matching algorithms, FB must be tracking everything. One of my ex-coworker is a “fussy logic matching” expert. There are many ways that data can be correlated to yield high results. That is why I didn’t know 1 out of the 9 people listed.</p>
<p>My point is do not expect any privacy when using Facebook.</p>
<p>Google is diffiernt in some ways. I use Google mainly to do searches and I never login. It is much more difficult to track anonymous users vs someone who login.</p>
<p>I highly suggest people clear out their cookies. Websites track what you do and save it on your own computer. The funny thing is, I visit my work websites from home occasionally… and all of a sudden all my facebook ads, or message board ads, will be ad’s for my company… Probably because the internet thinks I want to buy stuff from us since I visit the sites frequently… haha… Then I clear my cookies and I go back to random ads again… till a few weeks ago by, and we’re back on the work ads!</p>
<p>I clear cookies, history, etc almost every day. My son used my computer to look for shoes. Those darn shoes from Zappos have been ‘following’ me around for weeks. I read an article about it a few days after I noticed it. Sites you visit put Flash-cookies that aren’t cleared when you delete cookies.</p>
<p>You should clear your cookies, your temporary internet files, and your browsing history on a regular basis. I do this off my computer at work at least once a week. It really helps speed up your computer.</p>
<p>I do it every time I close the browser and use my antivirus to deal with really invasive ones. 
And if you have a WiFi, make sure it is secured. Turn it off when not in use.</p>
<p>Confidential information can only be confidential if the people in charge of keeping it in confidence are honest. Look what happened with Google:</p>
<p>[Google</a> tightening privacy leash on its employees - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-tightening-privacy-apf-1586573855.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=]Google”>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-tightening-privacy-apf-1586573855.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=)</p>
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