On: Facebook confirms it is scanning your private mess...

[ericdykstra]

There's a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser and don't stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don't trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don't want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.

"Move fast and break expectation of privacy"

[ImprovedSilence → ericdykstra]

how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?

[ericdykstra → ImprovedSilence]

I use http://ghostery.com as a Chrome extension. There's also http://disconnect.me, also extension based.

Then there's the more extreme route of using Tor for all browsing.

[kmfrk → ericdykstra]

Is there a point to using both of them? I just ended up using only Ghostery a while ago, because running five potentially redundant extensions seemed to do more harm than good with the hits to performance.

[darkstalker → ImprovedSilence]

For Firefox, there is an Adblock subscription called "Antisocial" http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions (at the bottom of the page)

[tripzilch → ImprovedSilence]

The facebook button is an iframe that links to a particular URL. You block that URL (+wildcard) in your browser.

[beagle3 → ImprovedSilence]

Ghostery and antisocial are curated fOr you. But if you prefer more control, requestpolicy is recommended.

[msg → ImprovedSilence]

Run NoScript, never whitelist facebook. Crude but effective.

[yk → msg]

This only prevents FB scripts from executing, but you still get the images ( and FB the cookies). So this is not the solution for the paranoid.

[knowaveragejoe → ImprovedSilence]

Using ScriptNo(chrome plugin) in AntiSocial mode works too.