Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday, 23 October 2017 16:56:40 BST tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> On 10/23 09:56, Stroller wrote:
> > > On 22 Oct 2017, at 16:50, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > > 
> > > for its invasive nature and its data gathering I really dont like
> > > facebook.
> > > 
> > > And now it seems that I cant with out it:
> > > There is a HUGE user group for the Creality CR-10 3D printer there
> > > and veryone and everything is referencing it.
> > > 
> > > My question is:
> > > Are there ways (and which ones) to become member of facebook
> > > just to read and write to this user grout (like a mailinglist)
> > > and keep the impact on privacy an personal fingerprinting as
> > > small as ever possible?
> > 
> > I joined Facebook for the first time this week, for similar reasons as,
> > and with similar reservations to, you.
> > 
> > When people upload a photo of you, it performs facial recognition and they
> > can "tag" you as being in the photo. You don't have to upload a photo of
> > yourself (I'm thinking of trying one in sunglasses) and in the privacy
> > settings you're also able to forbid people from tagging you.
> > 
> > There are quite granular settings to allow anyone but friends to see or
> > post on your timeline - I was quite impressed by how much privacy appears
> > to be available to users. I suspect this allows you more privacy from you
> > family and colleagues than it does from Facebook, though.
> > 
> > Stroller.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks a lot for all the input...it seems not only my problem which I have
> with facehook.
> 
> I will try th docker-way at first.
> But: I am a total (in words: "total") newbie when it comes to docker.
> And as I want "only" to encapsulate my inner self from the faces in that
> book (and for the first dont need to explore the huge planet of
> docker)...does one know of a good documentation for that
> purpose...something like:
> "Facebook for Dummies: How to use docker for anon access to facebook"
> ...or something like that ... ;)
> 
> Cheers
> Meino

Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't using a new vanilla FF profile as 
good as it needs to be to protect your privacy in this use case?  Facebook 
will not be able to collect cookies from your previous life or anything else, 
because this will be a new fresh profile.  Store it on /tmp/Facebook/ and it 
will be cleared out next time you reboot.  Fingerprinting will show a new FF 
vanilla profile, your OS, etc., but I guess this is innocuous enough.  It goes 
without saying you should not use Adobe Flash.  If you do 'rm -Rf ~/.adobe/
Flash_Player/' before and after.

Other than the above, Facebook will collect everything you enter into it, 
name, email address, etc.

If you want your IP address to remain private, use Tor.  Sometimes it becomes 
congested and busy, try a different time of the day.  The NSA/GCHQ and friends 
are known to carry out DoS attacks to frustrate users who are trying to remain 
anonymous.

I just think Docker, LXC, VMs and what not, are quite an overkill, but perhaps 
I'm underestimating the degree of privacy you seek to achieve.
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Regards,
Mick

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