The Flaws of Facebook's Instant Personalization, and other stuff
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianhttp://33bits.org/2010/09/28/instant-personalization-privacy-flaws/
http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/09/21/instant-personalization-program-gets-new-partner-security-issue/
Because of the instant personalization features of Facebook, I HIGHLY recommend that you stay logged out when not using the site, and tell all of your friends to also do so. Facebook is rolling out this feature to more sites, and in the past and present, there have been many cross site scripting problems with it.
Unrelated, but I agree with whatazurelunatic has to say about people spamming the LJ news comm with DW Promotions here. It is simply giving people a bad impression of DW. However, at the same time, I think even though DW and LJ can 'co-exist peacefully' the fact is, DW is objectively speaking in competition with LJ, so hawking a competitor's product in the official forums is not going to be looked upon well by the company. Whenever a DW advocate criticizes LJ, there is a strong likelihood it's going to come off as a PR move to promote DW. [BTW, Splitcomplex is not replying because they've been banned from LJ news]
http://news.livejournal.com/130231.html?thread=90773943#t90773943 A Russian user claims that Russian users didn't care very much about the cross-posting thing because a) Twitter and FB aren't very popular, and b) because of security concerns, they don't post private things to LJ anyway.
http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/09/21/instant-personalization-program-gets-new-partner-security-issue/
Because of the instant personalization features of Facebook, I HIGHLY recommend that you stay logged out when not using the site, and tell all of your friends to also do so. Facebook is rolling out this feature to more sites, and in the past and present, there have been many cross site scripting problems with it.
Unrelated, but I agree with what
azurelunatic has to say about people spamming the LJ news comm with DW Promotions here. It is simply giving people a bad impression of DW. However, at the same time, I think even though DW and LJ can 'co-exist peacefully' the fact is, DW is objectively speaking in competition with LJ, so hawking a competitor's product in the official forums is not going to be looked upon well by the company. Whenever a DW advocate criticizes LJ, there is a strong likelihood it's going to come off as a PR move to promote DW. [BTW, Splitcomplex is not replying because they've been banned from LJ news] http://news.livejournal.com/130231.html?thread=90773943#t90773943 A Russian user claims that Russian users didn't care very much about the cross-posting thing because a) Twitter and FB aren't very popular, and b) because of security concerns, they don't post private things to LJ anyway.
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Date: 2010-09-29 01:03 pm (UTC)Thanks a lot for the links on the Facebook customization feature; that's fairly worrying. :| If I hadn't pretty much abandoned my FB account due to avoiding some people, I'm sure I would be feeling extreme horror right now!
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Date: 2010-09-30 04:28 pm (UTC)Oh, sure, the cockroach is eating some, but the amount is so minuscule as to be nonexistent, and the greater problem is in the inherent disgust for the creature and the food remaining that it touches.
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Date: 2010-09-30 10:28 pm (UTC)The point I'm trying to make is that it's annoying to do it, regardless of whether DW is meaningful competition or not.