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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by rjd on Saturday September 03, 2011 @05:57PM (#2958218)
I use a few plugins to handle this, check out:

http://www.ghostery.com/

http://open-bits.com/shellfish/

http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/

With ad block it cleans pages up like you wouldn't believe. Many sites actually become readable :O

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by cpeterso on Sunday September 04, 2011 @01:56AM (#2958897)
What does Facebook Blocker do that Ghostery (combined with AdBlock Plus) doesn't? Are these redundant extensions?
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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by slowpoke on Sunday September 04, 2011 @07:00AM (#2959209)
Ghostery is a general tracker blocker. FBB only blocks, as the name implies, Facebook related stuff - at least that's what I infer from a quick skim through the description.

So, if you only want Facebook gone, by all means use FBB. If you don't want trackers in general (Google Analytics etc), use Ghostery.

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by mason2 on Monday September 05, 2011 @12:19PM (#2962602)
What about an add-on designed with the only purpose of implementing this 2-Click solution?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2-click-like/

:)

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Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures by rjd on Sunday September 04, 2011 @05:52AM (#2959160)
Probably, I just had a look what I was currently running and noted them down. Could probably do with uninstalling it ;)
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