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Facebook privacy, Chrome extension for 2-clicks "like" button

40 points by hayeah 15y ago

csulok 15y ago
i love it when stuff backfires on evil/annoying companies. god i hope everyone starts implementing the 2 click like buttons.
- hayeah 15y ago
  You would violate terms of agreement. But if it's a Chrome extension, what can they do?
  - Yaggo 15y ago
    Not a violation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957957 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957957
    - hayeah 15y ago
      ah. I stand corrected.
ck2 15y ago
Does everyone realize google tops Facebook by millions for cross site tracking? I mean ad scripts, stats scripts, +1 scripts, etc. etc. etc. Good luck on blocking google, I cannot even turn off javascript for their domain because now their search requires it to function.
- antimarketing 15y ago
  Yes, that is a very important point, precisely because people do not want to focus their attention upon it. Google has gone from a company that does not do any "evil" to a company that tries to make a progressive / positive impact and therefore they feel entitled to collecting more information about their users than they ever thought they would need at the beginning. In that sense Google is like the government in the original Austrian economics. From utility to expansive progressive force. But with what results this time? Edit: this reminds me off the "Faceback" app from the movie Good Guys.
indygreg2 15y ago
For Firefox users, may I recommend ShareMeNot (http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/). It also nukes the tracking behavior of Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Google +1. Or, if you are an Adblock Plus user and want to kill Facebook on non-Facebook sites, add the following rule: ||facebook.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
- fsaintjacques 15y ago
  Block all social garbage with adblockplus. http://www.techairlines.com/2010/12/12/block-social-buttons-widgets/ http://www.techairlines.com/2010/12/12/block-social-buttons-...
ryanwhitney 15y ago
Great Idea. Hoping for a Safari extension soon.
ErrantX 15y ago
Better to have posted it after you've actually written it...
- hayeah 15y ago
  MVP. Sorry to disappoint :p
  - mtogo 15y ago
    MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. There has to actually be something for it to be a Product.
    - hayeah 15y ago
      Maybe I misused the term minimum "viable" product. But isn't it a standard practice for lean startups to run something like a potemkin village to test if there's interest? I don't see why I shouldn't do the same with an open source project.
alxv 15y ago
The Disconnect extension for Chrome is pretty good for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...

40 points by hayeah 15y ago

i love it when stuff backfires on evil/annoying companies. god i hope everyone starts implementing the 2 click like buttons.

hayeah 15y ago
You would violate terms of agreement. But if it's a Chrome extension, what can they do?
- Yaggo 15y ago
  Not a violation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957957 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957957
  - hayeah 15y ago
    ah. I stand corrected.

ck2 15y ago

Does everyone realize google tops Facebook by millions for cross site tracking? I mean ad scripts, stats scripts, +1 scripts, etc. etc. etc. Good luck on blocking google, I cannot even turn off javascript for their domain because now their search requires it to function.

antimarketing 15y ago
Yes, that is a very important point, precisely because people do not want to focus their attention upon it. Google has gone from a company that does not do any "evil" to a company that tries to make a progressive / positive impact and therefore they feel entitled to collecting more information about their users than they ever thought they would need at the beginning. In that sense Google is like the government in the original Austrian economics. From utility to expansive progressive force. But with what results this time? Edit: this reminds me off the "Faceback" app from the movie Good Guys.

indygreg2 15y ago

For Firefox users, may I recommend ShareMeNot (http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/). It also nukes the tracking behavior of Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Google +1. Or, if you are an Adblock Plus user and want to kill Facebook on non-Facebook sites, add the following rule: ||facebook.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1

fsaintjacques 15y ago
Block all social garbage with adblockplus. http://www.techairlines.com/2010/12/12/block-social-buttons-widgets/ http://www.techairlines.com/2010/12/12/block-social-buttons-...

ryanwhitney 15y ago

Great Idea. Hoping for a Safari extension soon.

ErrantX 15y ago

Better to have posted it after you've actually written it...

hayeah 15y ago
MVP. Sorry to disappoint :p
- mtogo 15y ago
  MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. There has to actually be something for it to be a Product.
  - hayeah 15y ago
    Maybe I misused the term minimum "viable" product. But isn't it a standard practice for lean startups to run something like a potemkin village to test if there's interest? I don't see why I shouldn't do the same with an open source project.

alxv 15y ago

The Disconnect extension for Chrome is pretty good for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...