<story><title>Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImprovedSilence</author><text>how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?</text></item><item><author>ericdykstra</author><text>There&apos;s a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser  and don&apos;t stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don&apos;t trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don&apos;t want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Move fast and break expectation of privacy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericdykstra</author><text>I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostery.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ghostery.com&lt;/a&gt; as a Chrome extension.
There&apos;s also &lt;a href=&quot;http://disconnect.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://disconnect.me&lt;/a&gt;, also extension based.&lt;p&gt;Then there&apos;s the more extreme route of using Tor for all browsing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImprovedSilence</author><text>how do you go about disabling facebook buttons?</text></item><item><author>ericdykstra</author><text>There&apos;s a reason I disable Facebook buttons on my browser  and don&apos;t stick them on my own sites (including my blog). I don&apos;t trust Facebook with my browsing data, and I don&apos;t want to subject users of any website I work on to their abuse, either.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Move fast and break expectation of privacy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkstalker</author><text>For Firefox, there is an Adblock subscription called &quot;Antisocial&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions&lt;/a&gt; (at the bottom of the page)</text></comment>