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No! Don't give your portrait to Gravatar. Regardless of whether you trust Gravatar Corp, site owners can carelessly betray the identity of users posting under pseudonyms. A cautionary tale:
Hashim in Saudi Arabia secretly reads an American blog about homosexuality. One time, the blog discusses the Middle East, so Hashim comments describing his own ...
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The only thing you need to do is block the URL:
facebook.com/ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php
For Chrome, use the extension "FB unseen" which blocks the URL (full disclosure: I wrote this extension). If you want you can use any adblocker to achieve this. But with "FB unseen" you can "Mark as read" whatever you want, so you can decide for yourself when ...
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Yep. Under "Live Streaming" -> "Stream Now" (or "Events"), set it as private to start like so:
Then under "Live Streaming" -> "Events" click "Share" then enter the email addresses of those whom you want to invite (separated by commas).
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Came across a very promising looking Chrome extension for sending and receiving GPG encrypted emails: mailvelope.
It supports a variety of webmail providers.
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Very similar to the link you provided:
Under your name (top right) select Settings
Under Privacy Controls select Select what others see when you've viewed their profile
Select You will be totally anonymous
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Extensions for Chrome and Firefox:
Chrome extension:
Undirect
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnjeiejifbgfdhfknogknkglio
→ https://github.com/xwipeoutx/undirect
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Firefox extension:
Google/Yandex search link fix
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix
BEFORE:
AFTER:
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Solutions without any browser extension or JavaScript
If you want to keep Google's redirection and only selectively copy & paste some URLs here are other possibilities which do not require any change in the browser. Unfortunately while the solutions work in Firefox they do not seem to work in Chrome and Internet Explorer any more.
Solution with ...
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In uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, or a similar extension that can use ABP filters, simply add the ff. as a custom filter, which will disable the other party from receiving the seen by notification:
facebook.com/ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php$xmlhttprequest
If you'd rather not use any of the above browser extensions, you could also just archive the ...
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The best Google Chrome extension for this is: "Mymail-Crypt For Gmail"
The Decrypt and Encrypt buttons are well located and easy to use:
such as the managing interface, plus doesn't require you to have gpg installed in your computer.
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It all depends on your privacy settings.
The default for actions is often that "friends of friends" can see actions.
You can control the visibility of a post when you post it. Make sure the default action for that is "Friends" only. This can be done on the Privacy Settings and Tools page via the "Who can see my stuff?" option:
Then go to the Timeline and ...
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Short answer: no, your Google Apps admin can NOT see your web search or YouTube history.
I'm a Super-Admin (highest level) for my company under Apps for Business, and I can't find any YouTube or web history activity via my Admin console.
What I can do is see a log of email going in and out, and enable or disable Chrome history syncing for my users (but ...
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Please note that the new YouTube Go live feature (introduced March 2018) only supports Public and Unlisted streams.
It differs from the usual New live event feature in that it doesn't require encoding software installed on the computer, it works purely in-browser (Chrome & Firefox as of June 2018).
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Likes are always private and anonymous.
That said, the channel owner always can see the country of origin for likes and dislikes on videos. That information is not available for likes and dislikes on comments though.
Google+ has no relation to YouTube anymore. And is dead.
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The original accepted answer is out of date. The current steps are:
Navigate to https://www.youtube.com/
Click your account icon at the top right, and select "Creator Studio" from the menu.
In the videos panel click the "Edit" button next to the video you with to share.
On the "Basic Info" tab, ensure, the privacy is set to "Private". Otherwise, the option ...
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Update: You don't have to do anything.
The comments you make on YouTube will now appear only on YouTube, not also on Google+
The only YouTube activity that gets posted to Google+ is comments. To stop that from happening simply uncheck "Also share to Google+" when commenting.
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No, not everything with everyone. That would be wrong and insane
Here's from official documentation: (click on link to see everything, I'll just quote up a few paragraphs)
WITH OTHER PAYPAL USERS
When transacting with others, we may provide those parties with
information about you necessary to complete the transaction, such as
your name, account ID, ...
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Hover mouse over friending activity to see the small 'x'. Click on it to view the options seen in the image. Now to hide a single activity choose the first option - Hide this recent activity story from Timeline - or to hide all friending activity hit the second option - Hide Similar Activity from Timeline.
If you simply want to hide the activity from your ...
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It appears there's no way to do this, unfortunately.
What I ended up doing was to do the going-forward arrangement, and then work back a couple of months, making corrections manually (#1). Better than nothing. There is also the issue of my comments on others' posts being visible. In my case, I think this is "good enough", though I do wish there was a better ...
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You cannot. There is no option to turn it off with Facebook UI.
Workarounds
Theoretically, you could kill all internet connections on clicking the message icon and prevent Facebook from using an event listener to check when you opened the message.
Going by this assumption, I'm saying that the read receipt shouldn't fire until you actually open a message ...
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Based on comments I know that you don't have any other devices connected (which is a big first thing to check if others have this problem in the future). And you have tried the 'traditional' turn off chat:
This is not a duplicate of How can I log out of Facebook chat?. It
says “Turn off chat” on that question's answer but I say “I turned off
chat but ...
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Unfortunately, once posted, you can't change the privacy level of a post.
Your only recourse is to delete the post.
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According to @SlackHQ (the official Slack twitter account), "owners can only see the private channels that they are a member of".
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Google has a plugin for Chrome called End to End which will allow exactly that. However, it's currently in alpha, and has to be compiled yourself. There's no word on if it will ever be an official part of chrome.
It supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography as part of OpenPGP (RFC 4880 — OpenPGP Message Format, and RFC 6637 — Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)...
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If you have the Invisible Hand extension installed, this information can be leaked. See http://www.cnet.com/8301-31361_1-20004265-254.html
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I have the same problem.
There's an online tool that I find useful here:
Online Tool - Convert google link to direct link for easier copying and pasting
Just bookmark that page and then paste 'horrific URLs' into the form to convert them into a normal links.
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Publicizing
While not 'true' publicized - you can goto Goo.gl and view a list of all links that you've shortened - provided you were logged in to your Google account.
Sequential
It's very hard to answer this - I did a short experiment where I ,posted 4 links back to back and the shortener generated seemingly random links.
Having said that, if you ...
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Sorry to hear that - if you cannot use the method for verifying by ID, then you might want to try reporting the profile as underage (even if it is fake)
As the parent of child in the profile content, you (hopefully) should be able to get it removed.
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=210036389087590
If you're reporting a child's account ...
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This is by design. In the Album Privacy Settings Explained support article, Photobucket writes:
Password Protected Albums
When an album is password protected:
Users enter the password in order to view the album.
If someone searches for your username, they cannot access your password protected albums unless they have a guest password.
Content will not ...
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