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Tonight I got borred and decided to do some messing about with Facebook to see what cookies Facebook was storing on my computer. I first opened my preferences pane in Firefox and went to security then clicked show cookies to bring up the cookies window. Cookies that get set on you computer are displayed in this window as soon as they are set so you can go to any site and see cookies being set in real time. I signed into Facebook and just started clicking every link I could within Facebook, photos, events, friends… you name it I clicked it. To my surprise there were more than 15 different advertissing/marketing/hidden sites saving cookies on my computer all with multiple cookies for each. All of these sites were nothing related to Facebook or any material you can find on Facebook. They weren’t subdomains, or ads.facebook.com type urls doing the “cookie setting”. This type of stuff raised a personal privacy issue in my mind and I instantly installed the Blocksite addon for Mozilla Firefox, then added all the sites that were listed in my cookies window. When I read about Facebook launching the Beacon app a few weeks ago without telling it’s users what it was all about,  I asked the question… “If they are doing that? What else are they doing or hidding”? I know these cookies can’t do any damage to your computer…? Well I’m no computer engineer, but I do know they can track stuff. Stuff like how much you visit a site, what you visit and then send that info back to the application that created the cookie. So what kind of hidden things ARE you doing Facebook?

Update: Did you know that any photo or video you upload to Facebook, you loose all your rights to that media? Meaning Facebook can do anything they want with your photos or videos and you can’t do a lick about it.

Fuck you Facebook!

Been pretty busy in the last few weeks. Just finished a new site for a friend, who holds a Mountain Bike contest on Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Used WordPress and a theme from the themes repository that I modified a bunch. Looks pretty cool so check it out! Bearclaw Invitational.

Displaypagerank.com is a site that allows you to grab a block of code, enter your url then embed the code into your site to display your Google page rank in a small image. You can also find out your page rank by typing in your url, email address and security captcha.

A not so eye pleasing but “get the job done”, data size converter. Here’s another sweet converter!

Podcasters should check out Ubercaster. They offer a sweet, and I mean sweet, application for creating audio podcasts really easily. It combines all the preparing, recording, editing, and releasing into one application. You can add all the ID3 tags and then export it ready for the web. There’s a ton of cool features so check it out.