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Is this a problem? Who stays logged into Facebook?

My browser does an auto fill for my user name and password, I login for 10 minutes to see postings from my brother, grandson, neices, etc. and then logoff.

Never occurred to me to stay logged into FB. In the same way, I like to use a separate web browser for just using Google and twitter. Small easy steps for maintaining a modicum of privacy.




Who stays logged into Facebook?

That isn't relevant. There are login cookies and there are tracking cookies. Unless one arranges for the tracking cookies to be deleted regularly, one will be tracked even if not logged in.


Thanks, good point: I should use incognito mode.


It's a huge UI problem, but browsers should probably default to the behavior that you are leaning over to one side and hopping on one foot to get. Then you need a UI for selectively turning on sharing of information between sites.

The advanced mode in uBlock is a big step forward for users that want to bother with it, but I'm not sure it is even solvable for users that don't want to bother.


I just looked at uBlock. I have used Privacy Badger for a long while, mostly because it is from the EFF and I trust them. What are uBlock advantages?


It's not an advantage per se, it just has a UI for managing the filtering of various requests:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

One way to use it is to set global deny rules for various things and then only turn back on what is needed for sites to function.


I bet most Facebook users don't know how to log out.




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