Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules

Re:Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU co... by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:21PM (#20607876)

I really like that if it's just a simple <a href>, I can completely understand what it does and the code is very short.

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Re:Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU co... by StavrosK on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:34PM (#20607950)

Yes, and there's no loss of functionality, you can still share/Tweet/whatever. Really makes you think about what exactly all that extra JS the real button loads is doing.

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Re:Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU co... by munchbunny on Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:13PM (#20608231)

If you're not asking rhetorically, all of the extra stuff is a delivery vehicle for Facebook/etc. tracking code.

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Re:Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU co... by JasonFruit on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:55PM (#20608866)

They didn't ask; they said it makes you think about it.

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Re:Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU co... by ec109685 on Sunday August 04, 2019 @06:42PM (#20609710)

Facebook at least used to tell the user if any friends also liked something, as well as tell them whether they had liked the page already.

Not sure if FB still supports that, and where I work, we have used static buttons since forever.

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