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There's a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don't stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don't trust Facebook with my browsing dat

There's a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don't stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don't trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don't want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either. "Move fast and break expectation of privacy"

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ImprovedSilence 14y ago
how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?
- tripzilch 14y ago
  The facebook button is an iframe that links to a particular URL. You block that URL (+wildcard) in your browser.
- ericdykstra 14y ago
  I use http://ghostery.com http://ghostery.com as a Chrome extension. There's also http://disconnect.me http://disconnect.me, also extension based. Then there's the more extreme route of using Tor for all browsing.
  - kmfrk 14y ago
    Is there a point to using both of them? I just ended up using only Ghostery a while ago, because running five potentially redundant extensions seemed to do more harm than good with the hits to performance.
- darkstalker 14y ago
  For Firefox, there is an Adblock subscription called "Antisocial" http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions (at the bottom of the page)
- knowaveragejoe 14y ago
  Using ScriptNo(chrome plugin) in AntiSocial mode works too.
- msg 14y ago
  Run NoScript, never whitelist facebook. Crude but effective.
  - idonthack 14y ago
    noscript doesn't do anything about cookies, and you can still be tracked by embedded element requests & referrer data.
  - yk 14y ago
    This only prevents FB scripts from executing, but you still get the images ( and FB the cookies). So this is not the solution for the paranoid.
- beagle3 14y ago
  Ghostery and antisocial are curated fOr you. But if you prefer more control, requestpolicy is recommended.