[LINK] Moses: 'How the internet became a closed shop'

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at vitendo.ca> wrote:

> I find yahoo.co.uk (which is offered up as an alternative search engine
> by my browser) to be quite good.
>

Yahoo. aka Microsoft Bing.

Facebook is particularly nasty w.r.t. privacy. I went to a TV site in
> Denver, one I had never visited before. In the comment section of the
> article I was reading appears my Facebook name and an offer to login
> to submit a comment. I reckon Facebook planted a web beacon on the TV
> site page which then fetched my Facebook cookie and returned some
> "private" info back to the TV web site. Why doesn't somebody do
> something!!
>

You've got that backwards.  The TV website would have included a frame that
loaded a Facebook page.  Facebook would never have sent anything to the TV
site about you.  No different than a "Like" button appearing on your
favorite website.

  Scott