facebook.com (for easyprivacy!!!!!!) [rej]

[bee]

Hi!!!!!!!

So, i randomly decided to clear the cookies and go on facebook.com to test something with AdBlock disabled
If you do the same and you go on http://www.facebook.com/ (no cookies means that you aren't logged in ) you'll see the Sign Up box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, open the list of blockable items, i'm sure that you won't see anything of bad
But, if you, select "I am: Select Sex" and you change its value you'll have this new item showed up!!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/ajax/register/logging.php?__a=1

i wonder what it's useful for, if it's not for tracking purposes

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Erunno]

This is the XML request which gets send:

for (;;);{"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorIsWarning":false,"silentError":0,"payload":null}

It doesn't look very harmful to me.

[Michael]

I agree with Erunno; at the very worst the item is a "harmless" tracker not suitable for EasyPrivacy.

[bee]

This is the XML request which gets send:

actually what you wrote is what the XML request receives as answer not what it sends

It doesn't look very harmful to me.

I ain't very sure Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829/ to see what your browser sends to facebook
Michael is right it's a tracking thing!!, even if maybe it's not okay for EasyPrivacy; but it's for sure a tracking applet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POST /ajax/register/logging.php?__a=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.facebook.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ........
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://www.facebook.com/
Content-Length: 103
Cookie: datr=cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

action=form_focus&reg_instance=12312312313-1f313f21f313aaabcd1321313abc13132abc13bcd&fb_aaaa

I just removed my personal info But that's the query sent to facebook, and the line on the bottom is the invisible POST query!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They're indeed tracking everything you do action=form_focus and reg_instance= is probably the ID they've assigned to you

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Please stop using massive smilies and exclamation marks, the text is hard to read with all that images.

On-topic:
Facebook external scripts(e.g. "like"-button, "facebook connect") should be added to EasyPrivacy.

[Michael]

The issue of blocking Facebook has already been discussed and rejected at http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=6430.

[Hubird]

I am a bit worried about blocking XML files but bee seems to have done the research. I don't use facebook and don't want to break anything, has anyone tested the site while blocking this file ?

[bee]

Hi!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, it works , if you go there to register one account as i did, it'll then say that it sent you the confirmation email of course my registration didn't went through because i entered as email something like "yakou.yojae@realprovider.com" (the username is fake )

Also the long number sent to the logging.php page, is the unique ID that facebook assigns to you!!!!!!! if you look at the HTML code of the registration page you can find it in the HTML SUBMIT FORM code!!!!!!!!!

<input type="hidden" id="reg_instance" name="reg_instance" value=" _BIG_NUMBER_ " autocomplete="off" />

I used this filter to block that tracking request

Code: Select all

facebook.com/ajax/register/logging.php

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Erunno]

The cookies will be sent anyway. Go to facebook.com, leave it, go to facebook.com again et voilà: Cookies are sent without the logging.php thingie. And I'm hesitant to block Facebook stuff since it's a very popular service and we can expect a large mob with torches and pitch forks heading our way should we in any way break it.