How to Block Facebook Beacon From Phoning Home With your Web Browsing Activities.
I don’t even like Facebook all that much, for me it’s basically just something else to check every day or two. But I have a few connections there I don’t have anywhere else, so I’m not quite ready to blow away the account.
Which means I get to pay attention step-by-steps like this one:
Here’s hoping they don’t change the URL.
Regardless, that BlockSite is a potentially useful add-on.
By the way, you have to wait until a site tries to phone home before you can opt out of the program? And you have to do it site by site?
Lame.
I really like Facebook less and less each day*
Privacy Settings for External Websites
Back to Privacy Overview without saving changes.
Show your friends what you like and what you’re up to outside of Facebook. When you take actions on the sites listed below, you can choose to have those actions sent to your profile.Please note that these settings only affect notifications on Facebook. You will still be notified on affiliate websites when they send stories to Facebook. You will be able to decline individual stories at that time.
No sites have tried sending stories to your profile
*and the breathless coverage Facebook gets from some corners doesn’t help either.