Comments on: Facebook Beacon Worse than Most Thought (And Still Is) http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/12/02/facebook-beacon-worse-than-most-thought-and-still-is/ information ethics : new media : privacy : values in design : 2.0 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:51:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Logical Extremes http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/12/02/facebook-beacon-worse-than-most-thought-and-still-is/comment-page-1/#comment-112200 Logical Extremes Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:11:38 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/12/02/facebook-beacon-worse-than-most-thought-and-still-is/#comment-112200 This is quite bad behavior on Facebook\'s part. It\'s not as simple as adding an ad server to your hosts file to block it either, as the beacon code gets served from a subdirectory rather than a subdomain: www.facebook.com/beacon/ But hopefully the various browser plugins and scripts will incorporate blocking these ads. This is quite bad behavior on Facebook\’s part.

It\’s not as simple as adding an ad server to your hosts file to block it either, as the beacon code gets served from a subdirectory rather than a subdomain:

http://www.facebook.com/beacon/

But hopefully the various browser plugins and scripts will incorporate blocking these ads.

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