2022-09-11
User IDs still seem to be readily identifiable in the same way as before. View page source > search for “owning_profile_id”. Remains to be seen how much this will change, the FB article does not say. 9/n
Meta
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data
similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...
The new PFB IDs are not widely implemented on FB yet but after a bit of testing most techniques seem to work as before. We'll see what else changes as PFB IDs get rolled out... 10/n
Meta
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data
similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...
2022-09-10
User IDs still seem to be readily identifiable in the same way as before. View page source > search for “owning_profile_id”. Remains to be seen how much this will change, the FB article does not say. 9/n
Meta
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping
Takeaways — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.