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Dch48

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #1965 on: May 24, 2010, 08:48:25 PM »
What I get is this and it never changes.


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« Reply #1966 on: May 24, 2010, 08:54:41 PM »
I can't see your pic, but I suppose the scan doesn't work right or something. For as mentioned in another thread it scans well but it's unable to fix anything, i.e. change any setting by itself. Still must do that manually.

edit: I can see it now...
« Last Edit: May 24, 2010, 09:01:58 PM by Logos »

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #1967 on: May 24, 2010, 08:58:44 PM »
I'd guess that it's just timing out.  Who knows how many people are hitting this scanner now.  Try it at like 3am or something and see what happens.
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« Reply #1968 on: May 24, 2010, 09:05:14 PM »
I'd guess that it's just timing out.  Who knows how many people are hitting this scanner now.  Try it at like 3am or something and see what happens.

nope, from the developer description page the scanner is being downloaded into the browser, and is executed from there...explaining how no private data is leaked by it...

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Read Our Own Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy is not long:

we never see your Facebook data
we never share your personal information
Simple. After the scanner is downloaded from reclaimprivacy.org, it operates entirely between your own browser and Facebook

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #1969 on: May 24, 2010, 09:09:45 PM »
Maybe it's a facebook timeout?
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« Reply #1970 on: May 24, 2010, 10:42:27 PM »
I had one exception in my original scan and when I clicked on it, it fixed the exception.  :)
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« Reply #1971 on: May 24, 2010, 11:10:16 PM »
What I get is this and it never changes.




I have the same issue.

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« Reply #1972 on: May 24, 2010, 11:58:25 PM »
What kind of an internet connection do you have and how big (many friends) is you Facebook account ???
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« Reply #1973 on: May 25, 2010, 03:09:55 AM »
My connection is a 10 meg cable connection and I have maybe 10 friends, no more. Going to the facebook page for the scanner, I found many,many people are having the same problem with various browsers. They have acknowledged the problem and are trying to fix it but so far, no go.

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #1974 on: May 25, 2010, 04:12:12 AM »
What I get is this and it never changes.



I have the same issue here.

You have to untick manually and opt out from all for it to be fixed

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« Reply #1975 on: May 25, 2010, 05:45:03 AM »
I used Chrome browser when I checked my Facebook acct.
What did you use ???
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #1976 on: May 25, 2010, 09:34:17 AM »
I think I used Firefox

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« Reply #1977 on: May 25, 2010, 10:44:36 AM »
yeah I used Firefox too...

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« Reply #1978 on: May 25, 2010, 03:45:08 PM »
Have you tried it using Chrome ???   Does it make a difference ???
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« Reply #1979 on: May 25, 2010, 05:32:09 PM »
Have you tried it using Chrome ???   Does it make a difference ???

no I haven't. Honestly, I don't think I'll bother. It might work, but I may login once or twice a month to Facebook, and that never lasts more than 10 seconds each time. I'll probably end up deleting my account there.