Originally Posted by
LIH Prem
For me it's just personal preference, but I've noticed that at times their pages consume lots of resources, more than they should for a simple refresh and I vaguely remember reading an article about something they were doing, but I don't remember the specifics of the article but it was enough for me to just close that tab unless I was actively using it.
They change their code often, so who knows what they are doing at any moment in time. They make money by selling information about you regardless of your privacy preferences, so the more info they can mine about you, including what else you are doing, what pages you visit, what you buy, etc, etc, the more info they have to sell about you. That is their entire business model. That's why their privacy controls are so convoluted.
For some interesting reading, do a google search on: facebook tracking
-David
Facebook incorporates some small Flash elements, which can suck resources because Flash is evil. In Chrome it's the worst - something about Chrome's implementation of Flash is buggy and a memory drain.
Facebook makes money through targeted ad sales. If you tell them not to sell your info and they do, I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
Whether you leave Facebook open or not has very little impact on privacy. Browser windows can't generally communicate with each other. The reason you see your Facebook profile photo and a comment box on many websites is that those sites use Facebook's API to provide identification and commenting features. Nobody is tracking you. If you don't like it, then browse the web exclusively in Incognito mode. Or, delete all your cookies when done using Facebook.
The level of paranoia here is really astounding. I thought I was paranoid!!
