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Facebook Confirms New Cookie-Tracking Issue 85

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:15PM from the issue-is-such-a-nice-bland-word dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook is once again setting its datr cookie via the Like button and other social plugins on third-party websites. The datr cookie can be used for tracking users whether you are logged in or logged out of the service. Facebook has confirmed this is indeed a bug, but says that it is limited in scope and that it will be fixed today. Talk about damage control."

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by _0xd0ad ( 1974778 ) writes: on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:38PM (#37614698) Journal

Here's my list.
||facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com
A few more domain exceptions on my home FF installation to permit certain Facebook Apps to work correctly.

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by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:47PM (#37614832)

ghostery... google it.

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