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This is not a new state of affairs.

 

We strongly suggest people who came via Facebook change their user names. If you are worried about privacy, I genuinely cannot think of a time when the facebook button has been a problem.

 

Maybe one of the admins will happen by to correct me....

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I disabled cookie tracking in my browser and have had no issues. Same with my mobile phone. I use Firefox for both, and the option to disable cookie tracking is in the settings. That way Facebook doesn't do that sleazy thing where it follows me all over the damn internet.

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The bottom line when it comes to any service, online or off, is that if you are not paying money for it, you're the thing being sold.  In this case, I make a living and pay for the boards by selling your tracking data to google, pretty much.   That's how the web works.  The alternative would be to have all sites be subscription only which would suck because then they couldn't be indexed.

 

The only thing that allows the web to be profitable and pay for itself is allowing yourself to be tracked. 

I know a lot of you donate money when I have fund raisers and I appreciate it.  I get about $16k a year from Google and then another $5k-$6k a year in donations, and that's before taxes or any expenses, It's barely a living.  The site simply couldn't exist if everyone blocked ads and tracking info.   The web couldn't exist if everyone blocked ads and tracking info.

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