The privacy mouse trap races
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Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping - gHacks Tech News
Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking.
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@izzion The only thing that occurs to me to say is "what took them so long?"...
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Since this is facebook we're talking about. Are the encrypting the links or are they "encrypting" the links?
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@cvi said in The privacy mouse trap races:
Since this is facebook we're talking about. Are the encrypting the links or are they "encrypting" the links?
It's more complicated than a bread box... as far as a tech writer can tell they're replacing the links with the contents of War & Peace.
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@izzion said in The privacy mouse trap races:
@cvi said in The privacy mouse trap races:
Since this is facebook we're talking about. Are the encrypting the links or are they "encrypting" the links?
It's more complicated than a bread box... as far as a tech writer can tell they're
replacing the links with the contents of War & Peace.using Rot13, but only once.
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There is no option currently to prevent Facebook's tracking of users via links. Users could avoid Facebook, but that may not be possible all the time.
Fuck right off, it's entirely possible to leave that shit to die and if everyone just did that we'd be rid of one mental plague at least.
Now that I think of it... Did I block everything facebook in my router already?
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@dcon It's worse than that, it's more complicated than either rot13 or base64.
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@Arantor said in The privacy mouse trap races:
@dcon It's worse than that, it's more complicated than either rot13 or base64.
Gasp!
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@Carnage said in The privacy mouse trap races:
Users could avoid Facebook, but that may not be possible all the time.
Indeed. Despite my best efforts, once or twice a year I accidentally click a link that takes me to a Facebook page. forcing me to hit the Back button as soon as I realise what I just did.
