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On my personal blog I made a button to disable/enable all the social media plugins. I don't know if anybody uses it (my readership is approximately zero, so no
by webjprgm 13y ago
On my personal blog I made a button to disable/enable all the social media plugins. I don't know if anybody uses it (my readership is approximately zero, so no point in tracking clicks or A/B testing), but I figured I'd give users the option out of courtesy.
It does use a cookie to track your preference. The default is to enable them (since most users are not tech savvy enough to know they want them off, and those same users wouldn't easily find a button to turn them on).
- Revisor 13y agoWhy do you use them at all if you know that they leak your readers' privacy?
- robotmay 13y agoSimilarly on my current pet project (https://www.photographer.io https://www.photographer.io) I opted to not use the standard sharing buttons at all due to the cookies involved, and I also added an option for users to remove all social buttons from across the site (even though they just use the pop-up share windows now). I've had a few people say they appreciated it, so it's definitely worth giving users that option if possible.
- icebraining 13y agoInstead of tracking by default, consider the approach taken by a few sites, where you have "dumb" images with the various social networking logos, that are replaced by the real button when clicked.