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Facebook, I Can Shutdown You from My Account and Smash your Cookies In My Browser!

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Facebook Tracking its Users

Another “Boom!” happened today in the social media world when an Australian technologist discovered that Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of their accounts. This information was published on a blog post, the main stream Media around the world took it from there, and heating it up asking Facebook to explain.

“Whenever you visit a web page that contains a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending details of your movements back to Facebook.”

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit”

That was what Nick Cubrilovic wrote in his blog post about the Facebook tracking issue. Check out this page by yourself and see what Facebook engineers says!

I need to breath!

facebook tracking its users

[box type=”gray”]Facebook, don’t think that because you are so big, you can do whatever you want! To deal with people you have to be a God. I am sorry, but you are not! You are just another site that has cookies, I can shutdown you from my account and smash your cookies in my browser.[/box]

The only solution for this issue is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, then restart it, or maybe use a separate browser for Facebook interactions. (Can you believe that?)

The world is freaking open

Facebook wants users to share it all, some people don’t care, but a lot of people do really care for their privacy, I am one of them!

I’ve limited my activities on Facebook since long time a go, because I don’t have any guarantee that my privacy is maintained! Even though, Facebook sometimes take steps in the right direction!

What about you?!

What do you think?

And what you are going to do?

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  1. Abhi Balani says:
    To be honest, I know these tricks of facebook. Keep on reading about them and that's why I really don't like it. I feel sometimes that Facebook is a thief. Stealing my information un-necessary without letting me know.
  2. John A White says:
    I hope they are only using that information for just the advertisement pinpointing, but you never know really... especially if you aren't even a member of facebook and they don't even let them know they are being tracked!
  3. greg says:
    This is pretty intense... I think the Facebook guy who responded actually did clearly explain what each individual file was doing, but I think people are concerned with even the concept of "logged out cookies" in general, regardless of what reasons you list. Maybe there's nothing dubious going on but there is the potential that worries people, and additionally people just get creeped out at the idea of a giant company "watching" them even when they're logged out of Facebook, as they go about their daily lives inside whatever web browser.
  4. Jason says:
    I'm not on Facebook. Life's good. :)
  5. Mohamed Osam says:
    LOL, typical crappy Facebook privacy control. Each time they try to do good, it ends up with a disaster. There is an old saying from where I come from, "She tried to apply an eyeshadow, ended up blinding herself".. I believe the same goes with Facebook, they try to make it better, they end-up screwing it BIG TIME. Cookie Monster, I have a job for you...
    • Noel Addison says:
      This picture always gets me. Also, I second that suggestion about using private browsing on Firefox or Incognito on Chrome. I'm not sure if IE has a similar feature because I honestly only use it to download Firefox after an OS installation.
  6. Linda says:
    Don't kid yourself, it's not just facebook or Google. The FBI, CIA, and the fusion centers set up to spy on us do it all the time.
  7. Aidy says:
    I think the best thing to do would be to use Facebook in an incognito browser and then close it when I am done. Wow. This is frighting news from Facebook. I guess this is what we can come to expect now being online. The world is going to become more and more like that movie, you know with Tom Cruise, that whenever they went somewhere the advertisements began talking to him or suggesting products--no wait, that's happening already! :)
  8. Saket Jajodia says:
    I don't remember when I clicked on logout button of fb on my computer. I got used to it now bcoz everyone wants to know about us.. Even Google tracks us that also more then fb can do.. And its impossible to make your self 100% protected on "The World Of Internet".
  9. Bogdan Rancea says:
    I think there's nothing we can do for now, Google also reads the cookies in your browser and uses them to find out what kind of ads will show you for the next weeks. So leaving FB for Google+ is not an option. We still need the social networks for promoting our business so we will just have to learn to deal with them for now and wait for some smart tools that could protect the data stored by our browsers.
  10. Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger says:
    I'm not going to say anyone stupid, but trust me, if you want privacy then don't share your secrets online, keep it to yourself. Look there are some people who are just damn stupid for no reasons, I have got a friend who like to self photo herself wearing bikini, though she put to only herself could see, but guess what, one of my male friend hack into his account and share her photo with us... she blame my friend for accessing her privacy, and wanted to sue him. I didn't want any of this to happen and neither to anyone I knew, but ask yourself, if you have photo you just want to see for yourself... why the fuck post it online, when you had one big hard disk in your CPU So, my guess is, if you want privacy don't use any social media platform because all the scandals and secrets begin when you post the first item of your so-called privacy ONLINE! Remember it is nobody's fault, it's you that had to blame for the stupidest of posting so-called privacy online. Hopefully I don't offend anyone, but that's just what I think...
  11. Steve says:
    Hesham, My first thought was that this shocked me. Then I thought about it a little bit. Step-by-step facebook has shown that they really don't give a crap about our privacy. I have already cut my FB usage back. N0w time to delete those cookies and visit even less frequently.
  12. Kavya Hari says:
    From here, i learned so many worthy points about face book information on here :) So, i would like to say thanks for given great post on here :)
  13. Dave Lucas says:
    Hesham, this does not surprise me! I've been sharply critical of all the guru bloggers who keep goading people to "like" each other so they get more "points" and their blogs SUPPOSEDLY become more "popular." I heard a story about one guru who has ties with facebook. This confrims it! Truth is, the gurus have little cookies of their own they are using to snoop on the bloggers, blinded by the lure of making their blogs more popular and making the "more money" promised by the gurus that they'll never actually make! Just BLOG, people! So simple! Forget about chasing popularity! Write great stuff and you will get REAL "likes" and "tweets" and "followers!"
  14. Lennart Heleander says:
    Hi Hesham, Facebook do everything to be better than Google and then get it wrong sometimes. I avoid anything new on Facebook until further notice and use it as little as possible.
  15. Ray says:
    It seems privacy issues have been a popular subject with Facebook for a while now. There is constantly something in the news about them and privacy. Maybe because they are so big and popular. It does make me wonder if other sites do the same or similar.
  16. Wasim Ismail says:
    Amazing, next time I log out of Facebook, you know what I would be thinking. On the other hand, maybe Facebook use this information to help Police to fight crime, parents and schools to keep an track of their children web activities. I'm not saying what Facebook is doing is right, but we all know that there was always issues with Privacy when it comes to Facebook.
  17. Alan Tay says:
    Probably that is why the famous Anonymous hacker is rumored to hack Facebook due to this reason. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20090328-71/anonymous-facebooks-going-down-november-5/ Nobody likes to be tracked or should I say losing their privacy. It is supposed to be private anyway. I strongly against what Facebook is working on now.
  18. Eleanor says:
    Makes you wonder if Zuckerberg works for the government... I'm on the fence, do we really have any privacy? It could go many ways, for example: Parents with children on Facebook, do they want Facebook tracking their kids? Blackmail? I'm going a bit overboard here but, for those cheating spouses out there "It's Facebook calling, we know you stepped out on your spouse with so and so on the site "Hot Singles" you've been cookied we want you to wire $10,000,000 to a swiss bank account in the Keys." I could not agree with you more "The World is Freakin Open" Just thinking out loud here, maybe I will send a bill to Facebook and charge them for my participation in their market research, (visualize me scratching my head while thinking) let's see if I go back over the last 3 years and calculate the time spent on the site and bill $1.00 per second.... But at the end of the day, it does not surprise me one bit. Now every time I logout of Facebook I'm going to be waiting for the scary little monster in the computer who is eating my cookies to come out and say " I'm Gonna Getchya!"