It is quite possible to responsibly implement Facebook "like" buttons on your own pages without violating your users' privacy. I wish more people would do it. I

It is quite possible to responsibly implement Facebook "like" buttons on your own pages without violating your users' privacy. I wish more people would do it. I suspect that including Facebook like Pages the way Facebook wants you to do it could be considered a gdpr violation, if it were interpreted that way perhaps people would actually fix it. On the CII best practices badge site, we implement responsible links. As explained in our security assurance case, "We do have links to social media sites (e.g., from the home page), but we do this in a privacy-respecting manner. It would be easy to use techniques like embedding images from external (third party) social media sites, but we intentionally do not do that, because that would expose to an external unrelated site what our users are doing without their knowledge. We instead use the approach described in "Responsible Social Share Links" by Jonathan Suh (March 26, 2015), specifically using share URLs. In this approach, if a user does not press the link, the social media site never receives any information. Instead, a social media site only receives information when the user takes a direct action to request it (e.g., a click), and that site only receives information from the specific user who requested it." Source: https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/blob/master/doc/security.md https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/b... Suh's page: https://jonsuh.com/blog/social-share-links/#use-share-urls https://jonsuh.com/blog/social-share-links/#use-share-urls I don't mind people sharing information on Facebook, as long as they choose to do so. If they chose to do it, that's fantastic. What bothers me is Facebook being able to track people without their consent.