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Friday, 09 November 2007

How to block Facebook's Beacon

Yesterday I blogged about some of the privacy concerns surrounding Facebook's new advertising network, including Beacon (see here).  Today Mashable reports that people have already figured out how to block Beacon:

Project Bacn Beacon is obviously in full effect now, and it only took a day for folks to progress through varying states of emotion and spring into action in terms of finding a way to prevent it. Nate Weiner, the man who appears to have solved the problem of sending data over to Facebook on user surfing habits, isn’t alone. His story has hit front page status on Digg, with around 415 votes.

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