Daz & Facebook?
Wonderland
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I was doing a search within the Daz store and my connection was really slow for some reason and on the bottom it said performing TLS handshake with Facebook.com, then Facebook.com, then permitting TLS handshake with googleads and the page is taking forever to load. What is that all about? I know Daz uses Google Ads because I see their ads on every page I surf, but are they connected to Facebook too? Has Facebook collected all our info and searches from the Daz site too?
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The little icon on the way lower right links to Facebook.
Often they can use those little buttons to track activity. Obviously can't say whether it's definitely happening here.
When I look at no script there is a link to facebook.net whioch I have blocked and set to untrusted. I wish I could block google as well, but then nothing loads on the page.
Really? I have both google-analytics and googleadservices blocked and it's working fine for me.
Cool, I will try it again and see if that works. thanks.
For years, people have been asking me why I wasn't on facebook. I cited privacy concerns, and not wanting to have to agree to their TOS.
I think those people might understand a bit better now as to why I don't have a Facebook profile...
The question is, does MySpace get a new shot in the arm because of the recent revelations? They are still around...
I wonder how people would react if Facebook, Instagram, twitter, etc all vanished one day, LOL
More upset than if DAZ 3D were to suddenly vanish one day for most of us I think, but on the bright side those that use those platforms to aggitate will be deservedly be much more bored than they are now.
Well, I guess I'd rather see redundant ads for Daz everywhere rather than stuff I'm not interested in like McDonalds or Cheetos or something. And if they are using it for profiling, I just look like an arty typical LA person, so I'm not really that concerned about that but it is creepy when Facebook tracks you physically. I was at a foot doctor once after an injury and I got a pop up from Facebook asking if I was at Dr. so-and-so's office, which I wasn't and I asked the doctor if he knew who that was and it was the doctor directly upstairs! So Facebook knew exactly where I was, just got the floor wrong!
I wouldn't even notice to be honest. LOL
Laurie
I use Twitter to get all my news. I follow The NY Times, Washington Post, the Guardian and many other publications, news outlets and politicians. My father was a journalist and used to get immediate breaking news on the AP wire or Reuters. Now we can all get that through Twitter. Breaking news in real time! I love Twitter! (Except the influx of fake troll accounts which I avoid like the plague!)
wouldn't bother me at all, I don''t use any of them now..Ha! I never have, I have enough keeping up with youtube , I never had a facebook account, I'm kind of stuck with google becaue of my phone is android is pretty much tied to everything google, which sucks.
Same here as I don't use any of them, but I know so many that would be totally lost without them, LOL
I use Facebook all the time, but only to keep in touch with a small core of family and friends - less than thirty. I've never understood why people would want to be Facebook Friends with people they've never met. I'm a bit of a night owl, and when my oldest daughter is out clubbing I've usually got a Facebook tab open so that she can let me know if she won't be home without ringing and waking the entire family or hoping that I've remembered to charge my phone and will see a text message.
What really annoys me is that Twitter is the only way my youngest daughter's school communicates. I only use it to check what players our local football team will be putting out about half an hour before kickoff sometimes, and I've usually found out by other means before then. I'm forever missing important school announcements because I don't think to wonder if today the school might have something to say. I'd know for certain if they'd use the mobile numbers or e-mail addresses they collect from us like clockwork each year, or even update the calendar on their neglected website occasionally. I must be far from being the only non-Twitter using parent, because the school is constantly complaining about how under-attended their parents meetings are. That would probably change if we were given more of an indication that they were happening than 140 characters on the day of the event, posted to a site only a minority of us are using. For teachers, they're not very bright :)
I have no illusions about Facebook and do get a fair amount of enjoyment from it. I’d be sad if it disappeared.... I’d miss the cats and dogs and recipes.
Ive had my data breached and compromised by 5 major companies all of whom who should’ve had better security.. so I have no real faith that my data is ever really private any longer.
They've updated so you can use more than 140 characters now. You can follow just the school and set it so you get notifications every time they tweet. And you can follow your daughters for that matter! As for Facebook, your kids can reach you through Messenger if for some reason they don't text on their phones. And then there's Skype... So many great ways to communicate now!
I've only gotten over the school taking it for granted that everyone's got a computer :) I can see I'll have to try harder with the Twitter thing. Facebook seems so much easier, somehow. The kids would probably say that I've managed to find a 'For Oldies' setting on there :)
I don't use any of them, there's too much mindless hate and willful ignorance on display.
Plus, I don't like being watched and sold.
I'm even spending very little time on DeviantArt, because it's become infested with that garbage.
It seems that you can't have a website dedicated to just one thing, like art, without it becoming
filled with politics, hate, ignorance and abuse.
Media today seems little more than a way for people to reinforce their views, and ignore others.
I've always felt that if you only communicate with those who agree with you, you'll never learn
anything new, you'll never grow.
That's why I read Fox and the Washingtom Post, for example, to see both sides. But it's getting
more and more difficult to find the complete truth about anything. But if I limit my input to
only one view, one type of thought, I'll end up limited by my own willful ignorance.
I am not willing to remain comfortable by remaining ignorant.
You'd see me outside in a pink tutu dancing a happy jig. Not a pleasant site, but I'd do it. I hate all that stuff. Now the confession, I have accounts with Instagram and Twitter because I wanted to get my illysArt out there so if I ever decided to try and promote things, my image/persona is out there and is mine.
Facebook is just my real name and a very small core group of people/family/friends to communicate en masse.
I only do FB on my tiny iPhone SE screen to avoid the vapid Facebook 'Trending' headlines and other such fake inflated 'likes' for pages and posts from activist sites that use automated like bots to pump up what they want FB readers to see.
I only have only a core of friends, kin, and ex-coworkers that total up to about 200 FB friends but must aren't that active. Those that has are either very interesting or not, the uninteresting ones just reposting political activism and news stories to their news feeds which I then get on my news feed, which I then block if Facebook's blocking algorithms are working correctly. Seems like for everyone of those troll FB sites I block though a hydra of 5 others takes their place. I did at one time have every single friend on FB unfollowed so they couldn't be abused by these other troll FB pages to abuse me with the trolling done there and back then the only thing that was showing up on my news feed was gardening, tourism, and cartoon posts from my various liked FB pages!
Quite pleasant actually!
Anyway, I try to remember to restrict FB to one day a week for a couple of hours because most is just simply political whine fests.Based on those whine fests I have made correct decision to swear off personal posts of all new news, television, and movies.
If I didn't have Facebook/Twitter, I'd be very lonely. But I have to restrict myself because I lose focus very easily. So I'm only part-time on those sites. But I know both Facebook and Twitter are essential in some places and serve as a primary means of communicating. if it went away, it would be the equivalent of stripping telephone service.
I mostly use facebook to follow all the 3D art and news I cannot get on forums as it is not limited by a commercial TOS to one site
Plus there are kitty photos on Facebook.=-)
and "likes"
It’s not just Facebook. Lately I’ve been getting pop ups from my phone asking me to review the place I just left (i.e. restaurant or mechanic or store). I don’t have fb (though I’m glad I got mom on it so she can stay in touch with family and friends) and think it must be google or android software or Samsung.
I use each one for a different thing, FB for friends, post my art and pics of myself and friends, almost no politics on FB, although I think now 99% of my friends are on the same "side" of current events. I lost a few friends pre-election when I posted too much politics, assuming everyone thought like me. Twitter, on the other hand has become almost ALL politics and I follow and am followed by people I've never met, I follow mostly news sites, politicians, journalists, some celebrities and a few people I've never met who have followed me or not and their feed looks interesting. Instagram is all about posting art and some of my lifestyle pics. I have some stuff on Pinterest, but that just got tedious and was all about PR for my art. But I've gotta say, I love social media!
Greetings,
My mom worked at a TV studio, just a little college one, but they had an AP (I think; might have been Reuters) feed, coming out in a little thin stream of paper. I'd sit down next to it as it chattered away, while my mom repaired cameras and other equipment at night, and I'd just read the tape. Short snippets that summarized the breaking news with just enough detail that you could understand, but not enough that the headline writers could get boring. It was amazingly addictive, because you didn't have anything like it anywhere else. Now everything is like that, and real-time news is even faster, as you can see people at the location where things are happening talking about it. And there isn't one or two sources of in-the-moment news, there's a million. It's overwhelming sometimes, for someone like me who has a voracious appetite for information. I've had to learn to focus my information consumption, which is why I like Twitter.
I wouldn't mind if FB went away, but I follow good people on Twitter. Creators, doers, who talk with passion about the things they do, and that gives me passion to get back to creating as well. They use Twitter because there isn't a deep committment; you're not writing a manuscript, you're not pleasing The Algorithm, you're just putting stuff out there, in focused snippets, and letting it stream past folks. A river of news. It's the closest thing to a personalized AP ticker that I can imagine so far.
-- Morgan
I made you a Kitty Pic so you didn't have to goto FB this evening.
Awww... two kitties in one scene. Thanks
What makes you think it will be safer?
I don't trust Facebook, not because I believe it is inheritently bad, just that it is a target because of all that jucy data waiting to be farmed by those who have access to it, legitimate or not. Facebook is by no means the only one.
FB is no different than the data warehousing that was going on decades before the internet. data warehouses that were used for the same exact things that FB is being castigated for now. And to pretend Google, Apple, Microsoft and others aren't modern digital data warehouses with collected and collated data for sale is absurd. Bigtime traditional media must be loosing a lot of influence to resort to these tactics is what it amounts too.