Over 16,526,067 people are on fubar.
What are you waiting for?
Looking forward to everyone you know on Facebook knowing that Fubar is your most-visited site? Can't wait for Farmville to offer you some "special" crops to plant? Excited to have all the ads you get served on every site you visit be for "adult" sites? Answer "no" to any of those and read on...
Fubar's use of Facebook "Like" on other people's photo pages means that Facebook knows every time you (and probably you coupled to your Facebook login) visit a photo on Fubar. That also generally gets shared with the people that run every one of those cute games, gifts, sruverys, and all that you accepted on Facebook too.
Oh yeah, I'd love for the Disney Channel to know all about Fubar
With Facebook's past history of flaunting privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon (or search on "Facebook beacon") and its new "feature" of pulling all your activities on other sites into your Facebook account ("Instant personalization") http://librarianbyday.net/2010/04/protect-your-privacy-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-instant-personalization-yes-you-have-to-opt-out/ and then probably sharing it with advertisers and anyone else they feel like. Think they won't? Check the proven-in-court lies from Facebook about privacy in the Beacon lawsuit.
Clearing your cookies will only help so much; you have to be completely certain you never are logged in to Fubar and Facebook at the same time; or even one after the other, without clearing all cookies in between. Yes, Facebook can take the "anonymous" cookie that was served to you from the Like button on the Fubar pages, then associate it with you when you log in to Facebook later. It isn't rocket science for them to do it, and I wouldn't put it past them.
Examine them all, in general, there is little reason to share beyond what you really want to. When making your decision, I'd assume that any application or site that has access to your data knows everything about you on all of your pages, as well as your Facebook and a lot of your non-Facebook browsing.
Very dangerous now is
Instant Personalization Pilot Program:
Control how select partners can personalize their features with my public information when I first arrive on their websites
which just went live without you knowing it, and is opt out, not opt in.
Logging in using your Facebook account? Can't help you there, as you might imagine. That establishes the link pretty firmly and little you can do will help.
Turn off the "share" feature in your privacy settings. "Hide share option on my photo pages: Yes" This will at least make it harder for people (including some you don't know) to link you to Facebook.
Remember that many of your photos can be accessed by anyone, even if you have your profile set to "Friends Only" or "Require Salute" -- that only controls the profile, not the photo galleries or photos. At least setting "sensitive" albums to Frinds (or Family) only and no rips will make it a bit harder. Oh, yeah, there is absolutely no security on the images themselves, even your NSFW ones -- if someone knows the URL, you don't even need to be logged in to Fubar to get the image itself. That I can't help with.
Using IE? Get Firefox, for so many reasons. If, for some reason you really want to stick with IE, use IE8's copy of Firefox's "private browsing" feature and never, never log into Facebook and Fubar in the same session.
Ok, you've got Firefox now, congrats! Your system security just went up immensely. You still need anti-virus and firewall and all that, but at least your browser isn't a prime vector any more.
Next, get AdBlock Plus -- you're going to like it for everything; ads aren't even downloaded so pages render much, much faster. In Firefox, click on Tools > Add-Ons and then select "Get Add-ons" and search for "adblock" is you have to. All you need is Adblock Plus. Install it, and when Firefox restarts, select the "EasyList (USA)" (or others as well, if are elsewhere).
Remove your Facebook cookies next (this means you will need to login next time you go to facebook). Select Tools > Options then the Privacy tab. Click on "Remove individual cookies" and search "facebook" -- select and remove all.
Now, the slick part - set AdBlock to remove the nasty Facebook button from all the pages you visit...
Click on the little down-arrow next to the "ABP" stop sign in the upper right of the Firefox window -- select "Preferences" and you should see a set of Rules, probably starting with "Filter subscription: EasyList (USA)" and select Filters > Add filter... You want to enter
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
and poof -- the Like button never gets requested from Facebook (which would have sent/set Facebook cookies while on Fubar).
You can also do this by going to a Fubar photo page with the Facebook Like button on it, clicking onthe ABP "stop sign" and selecting the Facebook content in the list at the bottom. Then right-click on that line, select "Block" and then the radio button for the filter shown just above. Save/apply and you should also see the Like box disappear for you in the future.
Hope this helps -- PM me with any questions!
P.S. If you find that the blocking of facebook is too aggressive on other sites, try
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php*
instead.
