We’re excited to unveil a new privacy feature: social button blocking. Why block them? Read our post about how social buttons, like Google’s +1 and Facebook’s Like, track you even if you never click them. We realize that people want to share things: it’s a big part of what we do online, and it’s fun. [...]
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How the new Facebook buttons are watching you
At f8, Facebook’s developer conference, they’ll be announcing a bunch of new buttons that will join the 905,000 websites that already use “Like” buttons. Now you’ll have “Read,” “Listened,” “Want,” and “Watched.” buttons. But did you know that social buttons track you at each site you visit, even if you never click on them? This [...]