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		_delirium on Sept 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secr... Facebook is able to tell which profiles you view more frequently than others, so some sort of log data correlated with users is being kept.

nl on Sept 26, 2011 [–]

That's different to HTTP access logs.

If I view a profile on the mobile app or on the web page it is (presumably) measured the same, presumably in the application layer. That's different to recording the your id in the HTTP access logs.

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