Title: Facebook discloses its users to 3rd party web sites
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: November 16, 2007

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# Facebook discloses its users to 3rd party web sites

November 16, 2007

[⌊Q&A with Dave Morin of Facebook⌉⌊Q&A with Dave Morin of Facebook⌉[

Just a quick post, because what I read at Joshua Porter’s blog somewhat alarms me:
[Facebook?s Brilliant but Evil design](http://bokardo.com/archives/facebooks-brilliant-but-evil-design/).

I feel more and more reassured at why I don’t use Facebook and have a bad feeling
about them.

The gist is this: when you buy something at a participating web site ([Ethan Zuckerman shows how it is done at overstock.com](http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/11/15/facebook-changes-the-norms-for-web-purchasing-and-privacy/)),
Facebook discloses to that 3rd party web site, that you are a user of Facebook, 
and hands over some more details about you — while you are only visiting that 3rd
party page (and not facebook.com)!!

This goes against the idea of separate **Domains** on the Internet. Joshua fortunately
also [goes into technical detail, how this could be done](http://bokardo.com/archives/facebooks-brilliant-but-evil-design/).

In my opinion Facebook users should quit the service and heavily protest against
these practices. But I am afraid, few of them will even notice that this is happening.

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## One response to “Facebook discloses its users to 3rd party web sites”

 1. ![Vladimir Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e8a100b9993449fd032ad901479c10c502ae50db463c98f6b1c0432f425078c0?
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 2. [Vladimir](http://Vladimirated.com)
 3. [November 21, 2007](https://alex.kirk.at/2007/11/16/facebook-discloses-its-users-to-3rd-party-web-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-83051)
 4. That’s web2.0: giving too much power to site owners, and the end result is having
    too much control over user’s privacy.
 5. Facebook is one of those communities proving the idea behind Web2.0’s privacy issue.
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