jtara - 2:46 am on Dec 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Facebook should have taken the money (investment, buyout) while it was on the table from several sources.

They are finished.

I'll bet their new sign-ups drop off a cliff and never come back, after the major headline news stories that are sure to come.

Shouldn't this be blockable by setting your browser to send cookies only to the same site? We all have that setting, right?

(I observe a strict opt-in cookie policy. All cookies are blocked. I have to enable them for specific sites that need them.)

Or are they doing this some other way? If not with cookies, wouldn't this be cross-site scripting? Aren't browsers supposed to prevent that?

They can always match-up IP addresses, though that's not completely reliable.

The big problem is that this doesn't end with Facebook. Facebook will fade, I am confident at this point. But others with even less-scrupulous motives will carry on where they left off, forcing browsers to get more and more paranoid.

Glad I never signed-up for Facebook. At this point it is more intrusive, silly, and useless than MySpace ever was. And that's saying a lot!

Any bets on which comes first? The demise of Facebook, or the breakup of Belgium into of Flanders and Wallonia? ;)