The part that scares me is that we, as web designers/developers/owners, are complicit in this. We are the ones who are putting social buttons on every page. We love this functionality, but they aren't giving it to us for free. We are trading them our user's information and browsing habits. I'm not worried about the ethics of Facebook. I don't think a site like Facebook should be prevented from doing this openly. I'm…
Proud to not be a part of this "we". These social buttons are a plague on the web. They take something which is beautifully decentralized, and then create a single point of failure, and allow companies to create massive databases of private information from it as well. You can host an image locally, and create a link using it. You don't need to hand over the browser of all of your visitors to one or more AD companies…
Re: Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You Leave
#71Um...ad networks have been doing the same thing with 1px images since the mid 90s. The social buttons are not a new concept in tracking; it's just visible to users now.