S'been two weeks since I last posted something, and I’m really sorry ‘bout that. See, this whole time I’ve been planning a big post, but I haven’t been willing to sit down and work on it and wound up deciding it was too much reading for too little benefit. I’ll try to salvage it sometime soon, with as little text as I can get away with. Realistically, sharing my introspective monologues doesn’t benefit anyone other than me, and I figure if I’m going to be selfish, I may as well be quick about it.
Instead, I’ve got a Lifehacker post about Facebook that links into my post from a few weeks ago about Google collecting your information. Basically, some people found out that Facebook will track your browsing information and stuff, attached to your Facebook account, even after you’ve logged out. To deal with it, you have a few options: a list to load into AdBlock Plus, a Chrome extension just for Facebook, or a more radical option - the Disconnect extension for Chrome and Firefox.This has the added benefit of disconnecting you from more than just Facebook - it’ll hide you from Google, Twitter, and everyone else. When it turns off certain captcha services, Gmail, and other useful stuff, you can just toggle it off I think.
So there you go. Now you can opt-out, if you want. Seems fair to me.
edit: Oh and my Final Fantasy Thing was posted! I laughed really hard when this line came up, it’s the perfect hilarious SNES villain line. FF VII and VIII went all serious, but V (at least, the FF V Advance translation) has just completely absurd moments like this. You’ve got a villain who is, no joke, a tree that got really angry and decided to destwoy evewyfing.
“I turned myself into a tiny splinter, waiting for just this moment!”