Marxist ßastard Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) In fact, The Nexus is an exception in that we do not sell your data to anyone. And never have. You have Facebook Connect on every page, even on the forums. So if you aren't selling our data, what, are you just giving it away? There's also that creepy Crazy Egg thing. That actually costs money – so of course you wouldn't run it if it weren't making you money in some way or another. Edited September 1, 2015 by Marxist ßastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Facebook connect? What the heck is that? (I don't have a facebook page, so, it just isn't an issue for me.) Crazy Egg thing? Again, what the heck is that? :) The site is mostly supported by advertising...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisnpuppy Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 A definition from the web that I think explains it the easiest: Facebook Connect is a single sign on application which allows users to interact on other websites through their FB account. Launched in December 2008, Facebook Connect works with over 15,000 "partnered" sites to make site access easier for its users. When a user chooses to access a third-party website through Facebook Connect, they allow that website to retrieve information they have given to Facebook, including their full name, pictures, wall posts, friend information, etc. This not only allows the user to skip the basic registration steps required by most websites, but it also allows the website to update the user's Facebook wall and news feed with their activities. By gaining access to the user's friends list, the website is able to show the user which of their friends have also accessed the website through Facebook Connect. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-kills-off-facebook-connect-2015-6Also Facebook has dumped/is dumping this but have made something else to replace it I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Servers are not provided for free by the magic server fairies, the costs are astronomical and the money needs to come from somewhere, personally I'd prefer advertising over paying for every single website I visit. If you don't want to be tracked then never give out your real name or address, that way none of that data they collect can be linked back to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) This isn't advertising though. It isn't content being served to your computer in a way that you know it's there. These are invisible beacons that track what you do on the website, and store it in some database somewhere. Infinitely creepier than ads. Facebook Connect detects if you have logged into Facebook, like ever, and then ties your Facebook account with every page you navigate to. Crazy Egg tracks everything you do on the website, like a keylogger. Edited September 1, 2015 by Marxist ßastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 There's also that creepy Crazy Egg thing. That actually costs money – so of course you wouldn't run it if it weren't making you money in some way or another. Was mentioned in the recent news re: the site redesign. It's being used to monitor how often people (as a collective, rather than specific members) click on certain areas of the site to generate "heat maps" which essentially tell us what is used on the site and what isn't. We can use it to say "1 in 1,000 people click this button" but we can't use it to say "Marxist Bastard clicked this button for fury porn 10 times!!!!". We'd just use your download history for that.... We pay for Crazy Egg. We don't earn any money off of it; as said, we're using it for our redesign. As for Facebook Connect...where do we use that!? You can't login to the Nexus sites using Facebook, that I know of. We're going to have to put up the standard "This site uses cookies" banner that the EU brought in god knows when due to Google's changed stance on the policy (more than likely due to pressure from Brussels on the topic). I haven't done it up until now because...duh...of course the site uses cookies. We have a login system, that's all we personally use cookies for. Then there's Google Analytics and Quantcast for visitor stat tracking (uniques, pageviews, general locations, etc.) and our ad partners who use cookies for their ad tracking. I can categorically say that we don't sell any data "harvested" through cookies (unless you count "showing ads" as selling data). I wouldn't even know how or where to go or even how it'd be useful to anyone other than the ad companies looking to target specific ads to users interests. If you're the tin-foil hat type who's scared enough about cookies to not want to use them at all then you wouldn't be browsing the web without protection anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Fury porn, like Russian road-rage videos? Sounds right up my alley actually :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 You pop up at the most random of times, Marxist! Where have you been!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I... don't really know? All I can tell you is peyote is one hell of a drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshinenbrick Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 However maddening it seems to be getting out here, I think it is important and respectful to try not confuse any symptoms of a possible mental illness with the contrived perversions of enforced greed and power... ...or actually maybe not? Law and politics are after all ephemeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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