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Re: facebook spying on us?
From: Greg Ihnen <os10rules () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:06:49 -0430
Install Ghostery on your browsers and you'll see even more connections pages want to make behind the scenes to tracking sites etc. It's not just javascript. Greg On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:43:49 +0530, Glen Kent said:Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is flowing there?Probably you visited other pages that have links to Facebook on them. Try installing NoScript or similar in your browser and don't allow Facebook javascript, and see if these connections evaporate. Akamai is a content-caching service, just means somebody paid to have their content be (hopefully) nearer to you network-wise.I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating there.Two words: Big Honkin' Load Balancers. OK, maybe more than two words. ;)
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