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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 21, 2013 8:09:15 GMT
How exactly does someone "accidentally" try to reset my password? Sounds like another weak excuse to lessen my privacy settings so they can vomit more personal information into The Social Network!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 21, 2013 8:32:43 GMT
I'm getting tired of seeing more adverts on my facebook feed than updates and such from my friends. I wouldn't trust them.
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Post by Kye on Jun 21, 2013 10:59:45 GMT
I use adblock on my facebook page and it works very well. It was weird seeing all the ads when I was exclusively using my iphone in Europe.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 21, 2013 18:24:13 GMT
I even fine-tune adblock to remove other bits of stuff I don't want, beyond the adverts. Mine certainly looks different, but it's still awful! To further improve other sites, I block Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus type stuff on every site, but their own.
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Post by Mari on Jun 21, 2013 19:49:12 GMT
I don't know who invented AdBlock, but that guy/girl deserves the money he makes (much more than some people who design stupid apps do)
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Post by tangent on Jun 21, 2013 20:12:48 GMT
I installed an iPod app that had flashing and rolling adverts and had to abandon it.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 22, 2013 7:56:18 GMT
Without adblock, my computer would be out of memory and judder along in an unusable way! It is almost always one of the first things I install on a computer. I annoys me that my iPhone won't let me use a proxy to access the web as my home server has an advert-removing proxy on it. I understand the need for some people to pay for their app with advertising, but it they didn't flash, massively distract and slow down the application, I would not go to these lengths to kill them (the adverts, not the developers). ...I am still waiting to be able to afford a tablet device with a proper operating system on, that you have more control over.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 22, 2013 8:09:24 GMT
I just got another request e-mail trying to get into my account again... I clicked on the link and was informed that I may have already reported it (even though it was a new request) and nothing about the fact it was probable that someone was trying to hack in. I went into the help pages and it still doesn't offer any direct information about reporting it, except a well-masked phrase to report that your stuff has been hacked. Seems like they are only interested in fixing the problem than preventing it! Not that people store any personal information on there or anything!!! This is why I do not use it much. I have zero faith in their ability to secure my information! I am now going in to remove anything I have forgotten and do things like change my phone number to my backup phone!
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Post by Mari on Jun 22, 2013 8:47:46 GMT
You DO know that even removed info is still on there, right? If you've really been hacked, I'm sure the hackers have enough skill to get to that info as well. But isn't it the message you get if you have set FB to a certain operating system and location? Everytime I log in at my parents I get the message that someone has been in my FB when I get back home.
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Post by Miisa on Jun 22, 2013 9:28:06 GMT
Whenever I change my password I get that message about each new computer I log in to as well.
I just read the second half of the FB info message as "apparently your account is hidden from random facebook searches, so maybe someone thought the account name was free/theirs and thus tried to log in with it. Try making it visible so people can see the account already exists". But that's just my reading, I tend to see the world at the well-meaning/naive end of the spectrum.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 22, 2013 12:30:35 GMT
The message I get is that someone has directly requested a password reset on my account. While I am sure Facebook itself has a copy of the deleted items, if my account was hacked, it at least would not be able to see it. Once people get hold of full names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers, they are likely to sell it on to third parties as confirmed valid information... that is why I also never give such organisations my real primary e-mail addresses, either!
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Post by Miisa on Jun 22, 2013 12:42:19 GMT
I agree that someone probably requested the password, but that FB is diplomatically and discreetly insinuating it could be an honest mistake on the other person's part. Are you asking if that was underhanded of FB or what bit?
Obviously don't put anything on the net, at all, anywhere, that you don't want to be public knowledge. FB is no exception. I have more than half a dozen e-mail accounts that I use for different things. It really gets my goat at work when people call my up at the IT helpdesk and complain that they are getting spam mail at their work address. Well, yeah, if you sign up to stuff with it, especially directly online, you will.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 22, 2013 13:18:32 GMT
What I am objecting to is that Facebook are suggesting to me that I unlock a large chunk of privacy, just to display my profile image on the unlock account screen. If the first was a genuine mistake by someone, they could easily put a warning up the second time, if it was a genuine person (which I doubt), to tell them the first request had been rejected by the account owner and to go and check which account they were trying to access.
Judging by the tiny size of the FAQ and so on on Facebook, I am still working on the assumption that they are a "We will do things if it might get the police involved, otherwise leave your money by the door on the way out" company. I leave details on there so I can do things such as recover my account if it was hacked, but these companies now have way too much information on people.
The main problem I find is when people pass your e-mail address on and you get more and more crap. My work account is on loads of e-mail lists, thanks to the boss using it for stupid purposes and giving it to people with "affiliates". I get more spam than work mail and one of the boss' e-mail accounts gets 90% trashed by the filter, let alone the stuff that makes it in! It really annoys me when people put my address into sites to send me stuff, without checking the site policy of use and they then "share" it (make money out of selling it to other people).
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Post by tangent on Jun 22, 2013 21:20:47 GMT
Could it be a bogus email that is phishing for information?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 22, 2013 23:15:58 GMT
It is a genuine e-mail from Facebook. I always check links before I do anything with them anyway. I just think someone is tampering, trying to get in.
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