Like buttons, share buttons, Facebook comment threads, Facebook logins — all these now-ubiquitous adornments will be nuked entirely. So you’ll lose some functionality, but if you’re a privacy maven, you’ll have the peace of mind that Mark Zuckerberg can’t know anything about you after you close the Facebook.com tab. [Facebook Disconnect]
Dan
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:28 AMYes with the exeption that if you look at the extension it’s worse then Facebook because this thing also tracks you and has full access to everything you do. Google the program tech experts think it’s a huge security risk.
I'm_a_PC
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 1:10 PMYeah, strange that Google wouldn’t endorse something that would aslo affect (with minimal tweaking) their own social networking platform!
Flux
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 4:33 PMNo, I haven’t found it discussed as a threat anywhere – links or it didn’t happen…
It was written by a Google employee in his “20% time”, and isn’t being run for profit at all. Now admittedly, I haven’t installed this particular package since I already block FB connect along with other trackers, but I see no reason to regard it as suspect. If they do collect data, I bet it’s opt-in (like Ghostery).
James
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:23 PMKennish has open-sourced the code so people can look at it themselves, to prove what it does. It HAS to look at the site you’re visiting, to figure out what to block. How is it supposed to block the Facebook content without access to what you’re looking at?
In the “notes” section of the chrome store page for it he links to an explanation of the warning. Research – It helps sometimes.
Dave
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 5:11 PMWhy oh why don’t you ever include all the facts in your review – that this is ONLY for Google Chrome????
Franz
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 5:21 PMlol @ facebook, every week coming up with something new that rapes you and you have to disable it.
Timps
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:27 PMTrolololol yeah how exciting. Except like buttons and Facebook connect is not even close to new.