Whenever you visit a website it may happen that the website connects to other sites. By doing so, it may reveal information about you. A popular example is Facebook Connect, which leaks information to Facebook whenever you visit a website that is powered by it.
In short, whenever you visit a page that uses Facebook Connect, Facebook knows about it.
Brian Kennish decided to create a Google Chrome extension to block the stop Facebook from tracking the web pages a user visits. Brian mentioned privacy leaks in the past that made him create the extension.
It is not clear how Facebook processes the data. Privacy conscious users may want to eliminate the possibility that their connection data leaks to other parties.
Facebook Disconnect works more or less like NoScript for Firefox, with the exception that it blocks connections to Facebook only on third party sites.
All is working on Facebook.com, only third party sites that display information like xx,xxx people like this site are affected as the elements are simply blocked and not shown on those sites.
The blocking of Facebook on third party websites should not affect Facebook users at all. Some users have reported problems with viewing photos that are send directly to them. The developer will continue to work on the extension, and users who experience issues can visit the Google Code page to add the issues that they encounter to the list so that they get fixed in future versions.
The next version will indicate blocked contents on third party websites, which is currently not the case. The location where the Facebook Connect content would be remains white currently, which in itself can be an indicator depending on the placement on the website.
Facebook Disconnect is available at the Google Chrome extensions gallery.
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I just blocked Facebook.com in my HOSTS file, so it is blocked from any browser or any application.
@ilev thanks güzel yorum sağol
Habe auch de.facebook.com und www.facebook.com in meinen hostfile
mit 127.0.0.1 eingetragen. Wenn ich meine logs anschaue die connection zu facebook wird noch immer durchgeführt. Sch..se.
Auch bei ads auf yahoo.com nutzen die ip Einträge der adfirmen im hostfile nix . Wieso ?
I just patched the Photos bug mentioned in the post (v1.0.2).
Isn’t blocking 3rd party cookies is enough?
Also, if you log-out of facebook, the facebook connect doesn’t work.
my fabook not working i try to used my email but still why?