Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The Facebook SPY Companies

Thanks to the Consumerist, there is now available the complete list of companies that have signed on with Facebook's Beacon program (allowing people on facebook to see what you've bought and from where):


AllPosters.com
Blockbuster
Bluefly.com
Busted Tees
CBS Interactive (CBSSports.com & Dotspotter)
Citysearch
CollegeHumor
echomusic
ExpoTV
Gamefly
Hotwire
iWon
Joost
Kiva
Kongregate
LiveJournal
Live Nation
Mercantila
National Basketball Association
NYTimes.com
Overstock.com
Pronto.com
(RED)
Redlight
SeamlessWeb
Sony Online Entertainment LLC
Sony Pictures
STA Travel
The Knot
TripAdvisor
Travel Ticker
Travelocity
TypePad
viagogo
Vox
Yelp
WeddingChannel.com
Zappos.com


And now, thanks to Wikihow, there is a whole set of directions on how to BLOCK FACEBOOK BEACON entirely, but only for Firefox users. I skimmed it quickly, and it doesn't look that hard, so if you use Firefox, you may want to take a look.

2 comments:

esther (ambitious deliciousness) said...

thanks for the tip!! YAY Firefox!

esther (ambitious deliciousness) said...

Also, http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130