Re:When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop
by GoodIntentions on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @08:45PM
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If you haven't already, check out "request policy".
It's a plugin I'm using in FF alongside noscript. It makes browsing kind of noisy, but educational. As with your observation about 'like' buttons, I notice the more craptastic sites often try to pull content from 10+ other domains. ( Request policy stops these cross domain requests until approved )
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
Re:When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop
by esrauch on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @05:14PM
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Regarding Ghostery, there is really no way of observing what is being logged and what isn't on the server. Only some sort of legal inquiry can reveal that (eg what happened with Facebook in Ireland)
You could also use noscript or disable third party cookies in browser settings if you really don't want social media buttons.
Re:When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop
by superkerplunk on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @08:30PM
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I've used AdBlock to disable iframes with URLs matching Like, Tweet buttons etc. It has worked pretty well for me so far.
Re:When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop
by ekianjo on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @09:32PM
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You can still, however, make your own buttons using the API calls from the related social sites. You do not have to use the standard buttons provided. This way you can avoid all the privacy issues.
I get really mad at share buttons because there's no way to know beforehand if you are going to get to a page filled with those.
From observation I came to a simple law about these share buttons: the amount of content is inversely proportional to the number of share buttons on the page.