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Installing this extension is as easy as clicking the big Install button on its page and then click Install when Chrome asks you whether you really want to install the extension.
You still need to go to Chrome extension website right? It's not that when you go to a website that has FB connect, the Chrome asks if you want to block it or not. That would be effective though.
Come on, we already have a perfectly good protocol for this, OpenID. It's unfortunate how big companies try to lock users in their own authentication services rather than educate them about OpenID (although I think the new JanRain widgets turn OpenID into a "Connect with X" service, which is great).
OpenID is not a perfectly good protocol. It is a total mess. Implementing it is an exercise in pulling teeth. Every major implementation was vulnerable to a timing attack until recently, which severely compromised the security of both sites which actually accept OpenID. The user experience is an abomination which requires users understand concepts which strike them like ancient Aramaic. Half of the spec, which you ha…
(Won't touch the other trolling.)
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You still need to go to Chrome extension website right? It's not that when you go to a website that has FB connect, the Chrome asks if you want to block it or not. That would be effective though.
FWIW, you do not need to go the Chrome extension website to install an extension. It can be hosted by a 3rd party via a simple link on any website.
What's interesting to me is that this is done in Chrome, which has given eg, Adblock some trouble since it does not really allow extensions to change the page content, only hide parts of it. Would be interested in a technical look at how it's managing to filter out the facebook bugs given that limitation -- or has Chrome been updated to give extensions more power?
Rapportive appears to modify page content in chrome
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The browser extension is useful, even more so for non-technical people: you click a button and it's installed.
How many non-technical people do you know that use Chrome as their primary browser? I ask this because while I know plenty of tech savvy people that use Firefox, I'm in the minority on the Chrome/Chromium front amongst them, and I don't know a single non-technical person who uses Chrome.
I'm hoping a Facebook engineer designs something similar for Google's privacy issues...
An tool which automatically logs you into Facebook when presented with a choice of OpenIDs which includes Google's?
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FWIW, you do not need to go the Chrome extension website to install an extension. It can be hosted by a 3rd party via a simple link on any website.
Yes, I get your point, but if you take an example of CNN, they are not going to have a link to disable FB Connect.