michael pucher

 How to remove facebook “like” from your browsing experience

The facebook like buttons spread like cancer all over the web. To protect your privacy (like buttons help facebook to know your browser history, info, more (german)), I’ve collected some tips on how to remove those buttons from your browsing experience using AdBlock, Proxies and other little helpers:

AdBlock for firefox

Add the following filter to your custom filters:

“|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*” (without the quotes)

Greasemonkey Userscript

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76037

Greasemonkey Userscripts turn into chrome extensions as well.

Chrome

Hint on chrome: chrome does not yet support script removal or ad blocking. At the moment chrome only supports ad hiding

http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/web/2010051501-how-to-block-facebook-like-in-chrome.html

Using Adblock:

Add the following to the Blacklist:

CSS Selector: table[class=”connect_widget_interactive_area”]
Matching Domain: .*

I’d appreciate any hints on other chrome solutions without having to run a proxy. Thanx!

User of posterous? Because they didn’t even asked users to opt-in and made like buttons the default, you should just quit using posterous. If you can’t, here’s how to remove them:

http://blog.blackdogs.com/remove-facebook-like-button-from-your-postero

Any hints/links for other browsers/services are highly appreciated!