Comments on: Compare People on Facebook (Fixed)

By: darren hills

darren hills — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:13:22 +0000

so up there at the top, u said u had some ideas on how to hack compare people anyway… could u post those ideas??

By: view private profiles on facebook

view private profiles on facebook — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:47:25 +0000

[...] shows, favorite books, ???about me,??? activities, interests, and political view to Google AdSensehttp://theharmonyguy.com/2007/11/14/compare-people-on-facebook/Facebook – View All Photos ?? Userscripts.orgAlso allows you to see photos of someone who has a [...]

By: Marketing, Technology, and Entrepreneurial Experience - Blog by Tradedot » Blog Archive Social Scam »

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:35:19 +0000

[...] Another instance recently reported by the social hacking blog, [...]

By: More about the Google ads that run inside Facebook | BlogForward : Money

More about the Google ads that run inside Facebook | BlogForward : Money — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:47:56 +0000

[...] issue started yesterday when a software hacker who goes by the moniker theharmonyguy wrote that a popular Facebook application called Compare People was sending sensitive Facebook user data [...]

By: Are social networks putting us in danger? « Always New Mistakes

Are social networks putting us in danger? « Always New Mistakes — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:51:51 +0000

[...] RockYou OpenSocial application emote. It took him 20 minutes to hack the iLike application on Ning. Today theharmonyguy announced that the Compare People application on Facebook leaks private information [...]

By: Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:35:55 +0000

Hey Harmony Guy,

Appreciate your being on top of this stuff. Actually, this is just profile keywords being fed into Google Adsense to do ad targeting (search on “Google Hints”) and shouldn’t contain any personally identifiable information (Google doesn’t get the UseriD for example, and never gets a complete profile or anything close to it).

Also, Google has assured us that they do not cache or store any of this data.

Also, we are far from the only application doing this. There are many applications participating in Google Adsense and using hints_targeting.

Still, until we make sure that it’s not a real violation, we’re disabling it.

By: Google is Secretly Mining Facebook Data - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Google is Secretly Mining Facebook Data - The Unofficial Facebook Blog — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:48:56 +0000

[...] The Harmony Guy has posted an interesting article highlighting a vulnerability in the Compare People application on Facebook. This is significant given that the application has close to 700,000 people and close to 10 million people have added the application. This means that Google technically has information about almost 20% of all application users. So what information do they have exactly? According to the Harmony Guy: The Compare People application on Facebook sends user profile information, such as age, gender, city, ZIP code, favorite music, favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite books, “about me,” activities, interests, and political view to Google AdSense when displaying advertisements within the application. [...]