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Bobbi L. Newman
Personal blog · librarianbyday.netculturesecurity
Bobbi L. Newman's personal blog at librarianbyday.net covers culture and security. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is about Facebook's Instant Personalization and wider criticism of Facebook, not the post itself. The linked post is about why the author is rooting for Google+.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Speaker, Author, Instructor, Director, Librarian
What Hacker News says?
After being frustrated for a long time by such issues, I think people are reluctant to immediately forgive and forget. After all, these issues are part of a larger pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook The Instant Personalization issue was the straw that finally broke the back for me. Without my permission, my Facebook info was suddenly being used to personalize non-Facebook websites[1], and in…
Comment linking /2010/04/22/protect-your-privacy-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-instant-personalization-yes-you-have-to-opt-out/
on “Why I'm Rooting For Google+”Submitted Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Facebook privacy problem? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion