Tell Facebook to trust the links

Kevin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:22:22 +0000

When you are on a Facebook page that links to an external site, clicking on the link will take you to an intermediate Facebook page that starts with http://www.facebook.com/l.php before it takes you to the link you want to access. The JavaScript code Facebook uses reveals why they do this. The code says “UntrustedLink” and some other junk.

But if you trust the links, and if you want to bypass that intermediate business on any one Facebook page, just click this bookmarklet first and you will be good to go: [Trust].

Facebook, you little vixen, you

Kevin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:44:08 +0000

Okay. Facebook knows I’m a man, Facebook knows I’m single and Facebook knows I’m interested in women. Therefore, Facebook knows I am attracted to women with balloons in their shirts. Not well-endowed natural goodness, but actual balloons. The evidence is the looping image to the right of some ads I’ve seen recently on my profile.

(If your web browser is set not to show the loop of an animated GIF image file, you’re missing out on 5 out of 6 pairs of balloons in the animated image to the right.)

To be fair, once in a while the ad will have a normal woman and simply say Attractive Single Women. Once in a while. But I have posted this because it makes me laugh, and because I want Facebook users with different profiles from mine to see what ridiculous photos are being used to entice me to some lame dating site.

Single men can’t surely be the only target of laughable ads. What weird stuff do you see in your Facebook ads that I might not know about?

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Tell Facebook to trust the links

Facebook, you little vixen, you