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Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the of-course-they-are dept.

Stoobalou submitted a story about some of the most obvious research I've seen in a while ... "A researcher from a Dutch university is warning that Facebook's 'Like This' button is watching your every move. Arnold Roosendaal, who is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg University for Law, Technology and Society, warns that Facebook is tracking and tracing everyone, whether they use the social networking site or not. Roosendaal says that Facebook's tentacles reach way beyond the confines of its own web sites and subscriber base because more and more third party sites are using the 'Like This' button and Facebook Connect."

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  1. Plugins by mr100percent · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why I use plugins like Defacer, which hides the iframes for Facebook and (coming soon) the other Share buttons.

    1. Re:Plugins by Anti-S · · Score: 5, Informative

      AdBlock exception rule: ||facebook.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1

  2. Not if you... by Posting=!Working · · Score: 5, Informative

    Add this to your Adblock Plus filter:

    ||facebook.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1

    What like button?
    You can still use facebook, but they're blocked from any page that isn't facebook.com.

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    This sentence no verb.
    1. Re:Not if you... by bassman998 · · Score: 5, Informative

      I use the following Adblock rules:

      ||fbcdn.com/*$domain=~facebook.com
      ||fbcdn.net/*$domain=~facebook.com
      ||facebook.com/*$domain=~facebook.com
      ||facebook.net/*$domain=~facebook.com

      I never see Facebook content on any site other than Facebook, and their social plugin can't track me.