There's a lot going on to block Facebook these days. I'm not happy with it either, but can somebody please give me an insight why so many people are pissed of it right now?
Facebook Disconnect - chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking
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#12Anyone know of these kind of extensions for Safari?
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#13There's a lot going on to block Facebook these days. I'm not happy with it either, but can somebody please give me an insight why so many people are pissed of it right now?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2299975
That says a lot right away.
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#14There's a lot going on to block Facebook these days. I'm not happy with it either, but can somebody please give me an insight why so many people are pissed of it right now?
I have an online and an offline life. FB is associated with my offline life, my real life. I don't want what I do online associated with my real life, and being forced to sign up through facebook before I've even tested what you're trying to sell me is a real no-no.
As I said elsewhere. The day I'm forced to authenticate through Facebook is the day there'll be a pseudonym account set up for me.
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#15There's a lot going on to block Facebook these days. I'm not happy with it either, but can somebody please give me an insight why so many people are pissed of it right now?
right now it's the commenting system. Before that it was general backlash and before that it was the like-button-everywhere shitstorm that also spawned diaspora.
Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.
Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.
You can't expect consistency in a society with a cumulative attention span of about a week.
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#16For those on OSX Glimmer Blocker ( http://glimmerblocker.org/ ) provides really nice OS-wide ad blocking and there's a custom ruleset that blocks all the facebook widgets with click-to-enable at http://visuao.net/facebook/glimmer.xml
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#17So this is just a version of Disconnect that only blocks facebook? Does Disconnet do all this anyway? I discovered at the weekend that Disconnect blocks results on a Google custom search I made where analytics is running also. Seems a little overzealous.
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#18For those on OSX Glimmer Blocker ( http://glimmerblocker.org/ ) provides really nice OS-wide ad blocking and there's a custom ruleset that blocks all the facebook widgets with click-to-enable at http://visuao.net/facebook/glimmer.xml
Great recommendation.
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#19'Keep My Opt-Outs' is the same one by Google, no?
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkieca...
Re: Facebook Disconnect - chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking
#20From the same author (@byoogle) there is also a more generic Disconnect, that blocks Google,Twitter,Digg,Yahoo! too. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla... A bit aggressive imho, with the google block enabled you can't even login to google.
Be careful. Disconnect also ends up blocking core services, like Google Channel API, used by some App Engine apps (this took me hours to figure out why my site was broken in Chrome).