Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/

by ColinWright • 13 years ago

129 37 13 years ago

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This is too realistic, I'm super stressed out now because I didn't have time to answer everything right. Next thing I know, there's probably going to be something embarrassing on my FB timeline!

jonathonf• 13 years ago

Please, make a version suitable for kids. This would make an excellent teaching tool.

sebkomianos• 13 years ago

If they haven't by the time I am done with my current project (middle of next month) I'll do it!

nwh2• 13 years ago

It's not just Facebook, Apple does this too with their "iAd optout" pages too.

Limit tracking: [ off | on ]

I'm still not sure which side I want really.

atlanticus3• 13 years ago

Facebook and Google make money selling your personal data, Apple makes money selling hardware.

selmnoo• 13 years ago

That is a hasty oversimplification. Apple stands to make money selling your personal data just like Facebook and Google. And, were it true that Apple makes money only selling hardware, it would not feel the need to purposely confuse an iPhone user into being tracked by using dirty language tricks.

jljljl3• 13 years ago

Yes that's very true and perceptive. It is also irrelevant to the parent comment.

nwh2• 13 years ago

http://advertising.apple.com/

Apple sell your location data to advertising companies too.

dcsommer• 13 years ago

Can't speak for Google, but Facebook certainly doesn't sell personal data. Facebook internally uses personal data to show targeted advertisements. Big difference.

judk3• 13 years ago

Ads are not personal data. Google sells impressions, not details. FB too. Your supermarket sells your data to randkme aggregator companies.

Google and FB hoard personal data.

temp9251• 13 years ago

Google has started resorting to some odd and arguably evil tricks as well: http://i.imgur.com/gqJAfH2.png

"Your channel will get a new page on Google+" only appears after checking "No", and does not show up if checking "Yes".

judk3• 13 years ago

What's wrong? Of you split your identity, you get an extra page.

MaxGabriel• 13 years ago

For context, since another commenter suggested "Ad Tracking - on/off", the limit ad tracking option doesn't actually prevent all tracking. Developers are supposed to use this setting to know what they can use the advertisingIdentifier for. See bullet #2 here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AdSupp...

shocks• 13 years ago

I got to level five. This simulator is not realistic enough.

DannyBee• 13 years ago

It's not not not realistic enough

crazygringo• 13 years ago

    Don't not make everything not private

    [ ] Not No
    [ ] Not Not Not Yes

My brain was too slow!

Great game.

Sektor• 13 years ago

Took me another 30 seconds just staring at your post here to work it out.

judk3• 13 years ago

The trick is to just cross out pairs of negatives. Same thing for reading news stories like "court overturns ban on prohibiting suppression of car share services". Is that positive or negative for car2go?

sarreph• 13 years ago

I just watched the zealous Zuckerberg dance for three, straight minutes.

mam8cc• 13 years ago

Its his face photoshopped over the woman from this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-50GjySwew

alexvr• 13 years ago

Dancing Zuckerberg is the new trollface

CoryG89• 13 years ago

This is the best game I've ever found on the front page of HN! Absolute awesomeness.

tzs• 13 years ago

This would be amusing if I were Commander Data, and so could actually see my score in the brief moment it shows the results before switching to taunting me for losing my privacy.

chrislomax• 13 years ago

Conditioning has taught me never to press the blue facebook button on another website!

I took a leap of faith though when I read the comments here.

Good game, although I was checking my FB profile every five mins to make sure it hadn't posted any crap!

mewm• 13 years ago

I swear, I was about to post exactly the same thing!

I had to try it a few times, as I was laughing too much too, even have chance, when I first saw the line up of "settings"

10098• 13 years ago

I noped out of there when I saw the triple negative :-)

Karunamon2• 13 years ago

I'd like to take a moment here to be "That Guy" and throw a wet blanket on the Facebook hate train:

  * The options given here are not at all representative of the actual Facebook privacy settings, which my freaking mother can understand.

  * There is not a countdown attached to usage of the real privacy settings

  * Privacy is not a binary thing you either have or don't. Checking the wrong option in Facebook might result in some piece of information being available for certain other people to view. That doesn't mean they necessarily did. Nor does it mean that you can't go back and change the setting around later.

  * Facebook's redesigns were all centered around the goal of misleading people into publicizing information they didn't want to. /s

  * Whatever point this game is trying to make is completely overshadowed by its tone.

logn• 13 years ago

People take the internet too seriously. It used to be a fun place, I promise. And there used to be lots of terrible shareware games you could buy on CD-ROM or floppy disk, and they were often much, much worse than this game. Take these games for what they are, which is basically like the little puzzles on the back of a cereal box.

Karunamon2• 13 years ago

If this were posted anywhere else but Hacker News, I'd agree. But this site has a downright pathological hatred of it. It's like listening to conservatives banging on about how terrible liberals are.

znowi• 13 years ago

I suspect there's a whole department at Facebook, Google, and other companies that sole purpose is to come up with cleverly puzzled opt-in questions for users.

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