I got a little tired of the growing number of pages where I can see which of my friends were already there, with the implication that my friends would also see this when I visited somewhere first. Somehow, whatever privacy option I click on Facebook this remains on. And I don’t like sending unnecessary data to Facebook and then clicking some stupid “please don’t use it” button, anyway.
So… If you have AdBlock Plus or something like that (and you should) you can simply add a filter for the facebook crap (which is in an <iframe>), and all will be good. For now, anyway. In AbBlock Plus, the filter rules are:
|http://www.facebook.com/widgets/*
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
If you do this, the Facebook site itself will still work fine.
Update, June 21st: as commenters have pointed out, the IFRAME can be in the widgets or in the plugins direcyory, so both should be blocked. I added it above…
Good advice, but the most ubiquitous Facebook element AFAIK is the “Like” button.
This is an iframe at:
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?
So adding:
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
to your blocklist should help more.
on a related note, maybe keep an eye on GNU social. http://foocorp.net/thoughts-on-facebook/
Like in an IFRAME lives in /widgets. Or at least on the pages I see. The full URL was:
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=--some-url--&action=recommend&locale=nl_NLwerkt dat ook ergens bij no-script?
NoScript, als je het over de Firefox plugin hebt, voorkomt uitvoer van scripts. Dit is een IFRAME. Dus nee. AdBlock Plus is zo geïnstalleerd hoor.
Het werd dus AdBlock Plus.
Perhaps Facebook offered several options? On http://www.techcrunch.com for example, I get this line:
http://reclaimprivacy.org has a nice firefox plugin that shows what data is going where on facebook..
The sites grab your data thru oAuth (i do so myself) and only get what is public or given permission for. it is not based on what you send the site. in my case it isnt anyhow. meaning blocking with adblock would not help. only changing the public permissions will (got several approved apps on facebook.. so if you need more info let me know) what you are blocking now is only what you get to see yourself.