Help Me with Backpage, Please!

[+ Axiom2001]

I live on the West Coast and normally meet escorts and masseurs in the San Francisco Bay Area. In one ad, m-to-m, I sent a guy an email. For some unknown reason, to date, some of my FB respondents' replies appear in his ad after his initial information. The ad's title is: "Biggest dick ever • hosting or travel...213 905 0667 -29"

 

I did contact him to discuss the situation. He responded in a civil manner, and in my third call of last week, he assured me that he'd delete his ad and create another. Apparently, he failed to do so, for his most recent ad as of Friday or Saturday of last week still contained some of my FB contacts.

 

...have had difficulty contacting BP regarding this. What should I do, guys? I'm lost and am in a dilemma.

[JayCeeKy]

I believe what is happening is that his FB link (some type of link is required in all of these BP ads now) is sending you to your FB contacts/searches. When I clicked on his FB link it sent me to a page that had photos of people that I had recently searched or contacted. What he needs to do is change his FB link -- though I suspect he knows what he's doing. A lot of these ads are linking with phony Instagram, FB, or Tumbler pages - lots of these guys are even sending customers to Mark Zuckerberg's FB page. I don't think anyone is able to see your FB info - I certainly was not able to. Still, it's a pain.

[+ Tarte Gogo]

some of my FB respondents' replies appear in his ad after his initial information.

Completely confused.

What is a FB respondent?

[+ Tarte Gogo]

Completely confused.

What is a FB respondent?

Oh Facebook.

 

So you see you Facebook friends’ public messages within a backpage ad?

[Nvr2Thick]

I believe what is happening is that his FB link (some type of link is not required in all of these BP ads now) is sending you to your FB contacts/searches. When I clicked on his FB link it sent me to a page that had photos of people that I had recently searched or contacted. What he needs to do is change his FB link -- though I suspect he knows what he's doing. A lot of these ads are linking with phony Instagram, FB, or Tumbler pages - lots of these guys are even sending customers to Mark Zuckerberg's FB page. I don't think anyone is able to see your FB info - I certainly was not able to. Still, it's a pain.

 

This is correct. Don't sweat it. The link is generic and nothing in the ad is associated with the OP.

[LaffingBear]

Someone posted here on the forums the other day that BP has a new policy that every ad must have a link to a social media account such as FB, IG, LinkedIn, etc. Its their (ineffective) method of verifying that posters are "real"

 

I see my contacts when I click the link....

 

I believe the post that you shouldnt worry is correct... you're being directed based on the info in your device. Same will happen with others who click the link, based on THEIR device. I dont see the OP FB info... just mine

[+ oldNbusted]

FB gives me the willies.

[LaffingBear]

FB gives me the willies.

Me too. But its a necessary evil.

 

I play some online games to kill time. The only way to save progress across devices is to use FB (to synch progress on phone, tablet, etc.)

 

So, I have a FB account. No friends. Only exists for the game synch. And.. its the account that pops up from the Backpage links; no genuine contacts, no worries.

[northend_stv]

Go to your Facebook page, log out, and try looking at the ad again. It should no longer be pulling in your personal info,

[evensteven]

FB gives me the willies.

 

If I had to do it all over again, I would have stuck with Myspace. Seriously.

[+ Axiom2001]

Thanks, fellows. My mind is more at ease now! [i, too, have noticed inane other contacts in the ads of some of the guys, i.e Instagram, Twitter, etc... Go to them, and nothing is there!

[+ Axiom2001]

29 inches does look to be a biggest dick ever, but I'd rather pay $20 to look at that in a circus side tent than have something of that caliber anywhere near any orifice.

 

...don't know if you're being facetious or not, but "29" is supposedly his age!

[Golem]

The quote marks after the 29 are actually quote marks -- the OP was quoting from the ad.

[maninsoma]

Maybe a more tech savvy person can answer this: I get that one's contacts aren't actually being displayed in this guy's ad in terms of others viewing it, but behind the scenes is Facebook now going to be mining data that links your FB account with escorts' FB pages? In other words, now that Backpage is requiring social media links does the mere action of looking at someone's ad with a FB link allow FB to know that you looked at that at?

[+ Tarte Gogo]

Maybe a more tech savvy person can answer this: I get that one's contacts aren't actually being displayed in this guy's ad in terms of others viewing it, but behind the scenes is Facebook now going to be mining data that links your FB account with escorts' FB pages? In other words, now that Backpage is requiring social media links does the mere action of looking at someone's ad with a FB link allow FB to know that you looked at that at?

Yes, possibly Facebook could know where you come from if you click on the FB link that is sitting on a BP ad. They can know what lead you to them, if they have a setup that tells them that, which is likely.

These are called “referral paths”.

 

For example see here how website owners can use referral path, here is a description (Google version)

 

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/referral-paths-in-google-analytics/

 

To prevent this: use anonymous browsing, private mode with disabled cookies, the usual hide me methods.

[northend_stv]

Maybe a more tech savvy person can answer this: I get that one's contacts aren't actually being displayed in this guy's ad in terms of others viewing it, but behind the scenes is Facebook now going to be mining data that links your FB account with escorts' FB pages? In other words, now that Backpage is requiring social media links does the mere action of looking at someone's ad with a FB link allow FB to know that you looked at that at?

 

True - Facebook is watching. You can either logout of your account on facebook, or view the sites you want in private mode. Any page that has facebook script embedded knows you've gone to the page if you're currently logged onto the facebook site, even if you don't have facebook open at the time.