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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3670)	12/23/2022 11:53:56 AM
From: Savant	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thomas M. Respond to of 3790

seems like the Govt is exploiting a loophole (the EX factor) to conduct illegal domestic surveillance….monitoring and backchanneling info?? As well as influencing public opinion, actions…& thoughts… Nah…they wouldn’t do that….or would they??????

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3670)	12/28/2022 6:43:20 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3790

Speaking of which, I've noticed for a long time now that if you use both a computer and a smartphone to access Facebook, when you like a friend's post on one platform, it does not show up on the other. That is, you have to do it twice for the same post in order for you to see it on both. Has anyone else here noticed this? I've confirmed it with several friends and family members. Many young people use their smartphones almost exclusively for social media. When FB started, there were many of the 30-and-under crowd on it, but as the older generations joined (by connecting to old classmates, friends, etc.). Younger people left in droves for other platforms, like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. Anyway, I noticed that the desktop version of FB uses "www.facebook.com" as its main server. If you use a smartphone to connect, FB connects to the "m.facebook.com" subdomain instead, which would account for the missing likes from one server domain to the other, or desktop machine vs. smartphone. Obviously, the 'www' is for the World Wide Web, and the 'm' is for Mobile. You can also connect to the m.facebook.com server from your deskop/laptop computer, I've done that many times, and I'm sure others here have too. Facebook stores login passwords in the browser cookies, do most websites these days. I've seen the cookies in both facebook.com and facebook.net, and I'm sure there are many others. Most are now stored on the server side, so they're retained across browsers if you use the same password to access. Considering business running powerful enough servers can make as many subdomains as they wish, it could provide very granular information about your browsing habits, including any group you join, follow or post in on any platform. If connected together, it would give even more data about anyone who connects to the Internet and doesn't block cookies from being stored in each browser. So, what to do about this? You create a universal private key and use it on each website that offers it. I'll put up a pic of the FB settings page for it in the next post...