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One point from the article I found most interesting: > Pages that contain Facebook "like" buttons enable Facebook to track visitors to those pages. Facebook tr

by thex10 10y ago

One point from the article I found most interesting: > Pages that contain Facebook "like" buttons enable Facebook to track visitors to those pages. Facebook tracks Internet users that see "like" buttons, even users who never visited facebook.com and never click on those buttons. > The ACLU has a way of enabling users to click a Facebook "like" button, which avoids this problem. Its pages have a link called "like us on Facebook" that leads to a Facebook page where it is possible to push a "like" button for the ACLU. But if you don't follow that link, Facebook gets no information about your visit to the ACLU page. I'd love to learn more about these sorts of strategies for subverting the Facebook omniscience.

nikcub 10y ago
The term for them is two-click like buttons, or privacy friendly like buttons. There are a number of implementations[0][1][2] Note that Facebook doesn't like having the loading or function of their like button altered (they want the third-party page loads for targetting)[3] Note also that some of the share button widgets that aggregate the different social networks into one widget (like AddThis and ShareThis) pitch themselves are more privacy friendly but they are much worse - they will track and target you and sell your data to every network they can. They also use (or used) evercookie techniques such as canvas fingerprinting or cache-based fingerprinting for persistent and privacy-setting resistant tracking[4]. [0] https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook [1] http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy-1783256.html http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy... [2] https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy [3] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FFacebook-beschwert-sich-ueber-datenschutzfreundlichen-2-Klick-Button-1335658.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=... [4] https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/libraries-are-giving-away-user-privacy.html https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/libraries-are-...

by thex10 10y ago

nikcub 10y ago

The term for them is two-click like buttons, or privacy friendly like buttons. There are a number of implementations[0][1][2] Note that Facebook doesn't like having the loading or function of their like button altered (they want the third-party page loads for targetting)[3] Note also that some of the share button widgets that aggregate the different social networks into one widget (like AddThis and ShareThis) pitch themselves are more privacy friendly but they are much worse - they will track and target you and sell your data to every network they can. They also use (or used) evercookie techniques such as canvas fingerprinting or cache-based fingerprinting for persistent and privacy-setting resistant tracking[4]. [0] https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook [1] http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy-1783256.html http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy... [2] https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy [3] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FFacebook-beschwert-sich-ueber-datenschutzfreundlichen-2-Klick-Button-1335658.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=... [4] https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/libraries-are-giving-away-user-privacy.html https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/libraries-are-...