EVE General Discussion

When I started back to Eve about a year ago, Facebook suggested the RL page of a player who was in my corp back when I first played in 2006-2007 who no longer actually plays Eve at all. I didn't have Facebook back then. I'm on new computers since then. My Eve email is different than and unconnected to my Facebook email.

Good times.

Not true. I'm concerned about my privacy and I use Facebook. I'm also not having the problems being described here. Because I don't use facebook on my phone. I assume people are using FB on their phone and have of course given the ap permission to access every other app inclusing your web browser. When using it on your desktop, don't gave your afcebook page open while doing things in other tabs now that you know how bad they are data mining.

That's actually not how tracking works. Most modern websites use some form of tracking. Even the most basic forms of tracking "phone home" or report your usage to whatever corporation made the software, in addition to the site owner, who wants to know how visitors are using his/her website. This much everyone knows.

But the tracking doesn't stop there! Cookies, are like a spyware STI that - once acquired - track you around every site you visit, until you come on back to the original scumhole where you picked up the cookie. Most likely Facebook, lol.

More to the point, say you delete the cookie (wow, no one ever thought of that before!) HTML5 canvassing has already made a digital fingerprint of your exact computer based on the way it displays colors (no two machines in the world are exactly alike). This probing goes very deep. I know that even if you thwart those things, but still browse using your native browser on your home laptop, they fingerprint your ding'd old dang'd effin' BATTERY! It's nuts, how far it goes. But yeah, the known information about your home PC is simply recalled based on your digital fingerprint, even if you have cookies blocked and all that. They still know it's you. But if you don't have cookies enabled, and you actively BLOCK scripts (that's the important part), at least that's ALL they know.

But no, your method of closing Facebook does not actually prevent anything except you, from seeing Facebook. Facebook still sees YOU

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Stop.
Using.
Facebook.

Just stop using social media. I have never used social media and it is the most rewarding feeling in the world when your surrounded by people and you can't help but notice how frantically everyone is flipping through their phones not paying attention to the world around them. (It's especially funny when people walk across busy streets with their heads glued to their phones)

I pride myself in living in reality and I have no sympathy for people who regret throwing their personal lives out on the internet for the whole world to see.

Once you let your information out on the world-wide web, you can never get it back. Hopefully this is a great learning experience and illustrates to you the fact that you are not in control of your privacy by using social media.

I'd suggest deleting the account and engaging with your 'real friends' via phone or e-mail. It's not like there's any worthwhile conversation going on in the social media world anyways.

Should we tell him that an online forum counts as social media too?

You don't NEED to test every thing around to know that you are not interested in it. You already know a lot of stuff you won't taste even if you haven't tasted it yet.

Datamining sucks and all but this seems more like a tinfoil hat thread. If you don't want people to see your face, unplug Facebook from your EVE account

Interest in it isn't what he said.

It is amusing how long it does some users take to realize what facebook's business model is. Only the best things in life are free, facebook is not - you pay with your privacy.