I have the habit to read the latest phoronix.com articles every morning when I start working. It's a nice way to start the day and to stay on top of the latest IT developments - but I think you all know that.
Yesterday, our IT department called me asking about hundreds of connections made to facebook in irregular intervals in short bursts only lasting a couple of milliseconds. With the help of wireshark the culprit was easy to spot: http://phoronix.com/ The weird part was that the connection to facebook was made despite the NoScript extension's setting to block it. I was able to block the facebook connection only with the privacy badger plugin.
Michael, I understand that you try to "connect" phoronix to social media. I understand the temptation to use these big-tech companies' API's to reduce your development time. But - didn't you test it? Test how many connections a single article page would create? I am sure that there are hundreds of different ways to get that facebook link up and running without these hundreds of connections. On the other hand, it is by now a well known thing that facebook is not to be trusted. You cannot have facebook software in any of your products and expect the people to still trust you.
Yesterday, our IT department called me asking about hundreds of connections made to facebook in irregular intervals in short bursts only lasting a couple of milliseconds. With the help of wireshark the culprit was easy to spot: http://phoronix.com/ The weird part was that the connection to facebook was made despite the NoScript extension's setting to block it. I was able to block the facebook connection only with the privacy badger plugin.
Michael, I understand that you try to "connect" phoronix to social media. I understand the temptation to use these big-tech companies' API's to reduce your development time. But - didn't you test it? Test how many connections a single article page would create? I am sure that there are hundreds of different ways to get that facebook link up and running without these hundreds of connections. On the other hand, it is by now a well known thing that facebook is not to be trusted. You cannot have facebook software in any of your products and expect the people to still trust you.
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