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If the like button is hosted on Facebook, your browser requests it from there when you visit the page. So the site doesn't have to do anything except include an
by tikhonj 15y ago
If the like button is hosted on Facebook, your browser requests it from there when you visit the page. So the site doesn't have to do anything except include an img tag with a Facebook url in it; everything else is a consequence of how the internet works.
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- mike-cardwell 15y agoGoogle Analytics creates the same problem. This is why I use server side analytics instead. I don't want to send a list of everybody who visits my website to Google.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoWhat do you use for those analytics? Is it something you built or a third-party thing?
- 18pfsmt 15y agoMy guess is that he is using Piwik (wikipedia has an entry), as that is the best OSS package that I know of. It's LAMP-based, so YMMV.