14 DAY TRIAL // After the whole tracking cookies story blew up in the media, Facebook allegedly told Nik Cubrilovic that they will immediately take care of the problem. Cookies will still exist but they will no longer track users in any way after they log off from their accounts.
“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions,” Cubrilovic stated on his blog after making extensive research regarding the spy cookies.
In defense of the social network came one of its engineers who clearly said “Generally, unlike other major Internet companies, we have no interest in tracking people. We don’t have an ad network and we don’t sell people’s information.”
However, today, The Australian revealed that the writer received word from Zuckerberg's company vowing to handle the issue in the shortest time possible.
"They aim to fix it by tomorrow," Cubrilovic said. "There will still be cookies, but they won't be identifiable. That's within 24 hours. We can only take them at their word."
Now it remains to be seen what will happen, but in the mean time, to further prove his point, the blogger created a table that indicates exactly the values of each cookie, highlighting which of them are deleted and which remain intact after the user has signed out.
Even though this problem was presented to Facebook representatives a year ago, it seems as only after the subject was picked up by the media and redirected against them they decided to take action.
According to The Australian, the one that started the whole scandal received the much-desired promises from Facebook engineers and communications staff in the US, after a 40-minute-long call.