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Sign upPrevent Social Buttons from Tracking by replacing them with placeholders #534
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If tracking via social buttons still works, it means that Facebook knows anyway most of the sites we visit - I am a bit surprised that this issue has such a low priority. What is the suggested way to block Facebook from tracking users in Braze browser until this issue is fixed? |
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@maciejwalkowiak You're right. We should just block them outright until we build the safe way to defang them. I've opened a new issue for the short-term fix: #3241. |
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Any social widget should have a placeholder with its same size, and containing inside the site's favicon. |
Social buttons on websites can track the user. We should replace them with inert placeholders which don't make outbound requests until a user interacts with them.
Replaces brave/browser-laptop#312
Edit bbondy: I'm landing this in 0.63.x which allows users to turn off social buttons and embedded tweets:
brave/brave-core#1818