Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/06/16 09:56, Colin Law wrote: Even better don't use facebook. Colin As great an ideological solution this is it really doesn't work in the real world. There are no genuine alternatives that are in popular use. You have three options if you are honest with yourself: Use facebook and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Ivan Wright
Facebook use some quite sophisticated methods of tracking like Audio Context and HTML Canvas, and they reach a lot further than just their site. If you had logged into Facebook at some point on your Ubuntu phone, and you sent an email via a web based email service which had a Facebook tracker in th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 June 2016 at 08:44, Pete Smout wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" wrote: >> >> >> >> On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote: >>> >>> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access >>> your contacts? Then it knows who you called, knows his number and made >>>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 22 June 2016 at 08:44, Pete Smout wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access > >> your contacts? Then it knows who you called, knows his number an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Pete Smout
On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" wrote: > > > > On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access >> your contacts? Then it knows who you called, knows his number and made >> the connection. > > > As I understand it this would not