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A fair few people mislike Facebook’s reigniting their beacon and tracking your social activity on other sites via their new “Like” button.
The privacy concerns don’t affect me very much since I’m never logged into Facebook. I do find it a bit annoying that e.g. the Lovefilm site is now wasting space trying to get me to sign up to a social network rather than, say, helping me find stuff to watch, but whatever.
It did occur to me, though, that those who do care a lot could create/install a simple browser add-on that amends the buttons in place so that they do something like demand.openid.net when they are pressed - compile a per-website record of users support so as to allow a collective petitioning of those sites to drop the feature.

A fair few people mislike Facebook’s reigniting their beacon and tracking your social activity on other sites via their new “Like” button.

The privacy concerns don’t affect me very much since I’m never logged into Facebook. I do find it a bit annoying that e.g. the Lovefilm site is now wasting space trying to get me to sign up to a social network rather than, say, helping me find stuff to watch, but whatever.

It did occur to me, though, that those who do care a lot could create/install a simple browser add-on that amends the buttons in place so that they do something like demand.openid.net when they are pressed - compile a per-website record of users support so as to allow a collective petitioning of those sites to drop the feature.

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