Facebook "Like" is Appearing on every page, what's up with that?

Nov. 17, 2010 | Me

[COUNTrecount]

I just noticed this.

Why is the Facebook "Like" icon now appearing on every page I go to? Is FR now connected in some way to Facebook?

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[sam_paine]

Using the “Like” allows us to spread FR’s influence exponentially farther.

Kinda like motor-voter registration, right? The easier it is to register, the better class of voter! LOL.

[ataDude]

“Google Sharing” software is your friend. It routes through a proxy so your information is protected.

[discostu]

We don’t get to put in js code because there’s a whole bunch of us and policing it would be a nightmare. FB isn’t actually inserting js code, JimRob is including FB’s js code. There’s a very important difference.

It pretty easy to monitor. As you yourself demonstrated, any web browser that will let you view the source will give you the js link to FB’s code, click on that and walla. Also this kind of thing get’s around, if FB changes that link code in a nefarious way the internet WILL notice and WILL complain, like every other time FB has tweaked things in an annoying way. And most of those times FReepers post those stories, so JimRob doesn’t even need to monitor FB’s js code, he can just pay attention to his own board and see if there’s a story about FB changing the code.

There’s no reason for FB to treat FR traffic any differently than TMZ. Links is links and FB knows that the more places that link into them the more of a hub they become and the more they get “sticky eyes” (people staying on the site longer) and the more views their ads get and the more money those advertisers pay. It’s in FB’s best interest to treat all link-ins equally. And if there’s one thing the people at FB have shown a fondness for it’s their own best interest.

FR was broke actually. There’s a large and massive social networking world out there with hundreds of millions of users (FB reports 500 million all by themselves). And a lot of what they’re doing is the kind of news story distribution we do here on FR. FR was isolated from all that and risked losing pertinence. You can tell by how long the fund raiser took that FR is not quite the power house it once was. A bit of new blood and improved visibility could help that. They were playing with RSS feeds not that long ago, they should add tweet and digg capabilities. Gotta stay modern, the internet is no place to go Luddite.

And if it really bugs you that much disable java. Walla, all gone.

[discostu]

Pretty sure. At least that’s what the bottom of my coffee cup says ;)

[Rightly Biased]

OK I liked it..

Will I go to some cyber hell now?

[Jim Robinson]

Zero. Get real!!

[mrsmith]

I also get this put into my IE temp file (which I clean often):

[sam_paine]

Also this kind of thing get’s around, if FB changes that link code in a nefarious way the internet WILL notice and WILL complain,

That would be true if the simple looking link was "web 1.0."

But since the FB server gives back a dynamically generated script, that can be tailored by referring link, time, requestor IP, etc, then the same old simple link from JimRob simply gives them a hook to do whatever with whomever.

[mrsmith]

XD Proxy/title> /head> body onload="doFragmentSend()"> div id="swf_holder" style="position: absolute; top: -10000px; width: 1px; height: 1px"> /div> script> var XdCommUrl = "http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zx\/r\/DmvbpGB-fMy.swf";var AllowFbCom = false; /** * For "proxying" in-browser messages for Connect. * * @author naitik */ /** * Resolve a id back to a node. An id is a string like: * top.frames[5].frames['crazy'].parent.frames["two"].opener * * @param id {String} the string to resolve * @returns {Node} the resolved window object * @throws SyntaxError if the id is malformed */ function resolveRelation(id) { var pt, matches, parts = id.split('.'), node = window; for (var i=0, l=parts.length; i' + 'param name="movie" value="' + XdCommUrl + '">/param>' + 'param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always">/param>' + '/object>' ); document.getElementById('swf_holder').innerHTML = html; } /** * Kick off the send process based on the current Fragment. */ function doFragmentSend() { // this page should not be allowed to run on facebook.com in production // it should be used from the fbcdn.net domain if (!AllowFbCom && /(^|\.)facebook.com$/.test(document.domain.toString())) { return; } var location = window.location.toString(), fragment = location.substr(location.indexOf('#') + 1), params = {}, parts = fragment.split('&'), i, pair; for (i=0; iparts.length; i++) { pair = parts[i].split('=', 2); params[decodeURIComponent(pair[0])] = decodeURIComponent(pair[1]); } // either send the message via postMessage, or via Flash if (params.transport == 'postmessage') { resolveRelation(params.relation).postMessage(fragment, params.origin); } else if (params.transport == 'flash') { var name = window.location.toString() + Math.random(); window.FB_OnFlashXdCommReady = function() { document.XdComm.postMessage_init('dummy', name); document.XdComm.postMessage_send(fragment, params.origin); }; createXdCommSwf(); } }

[Responsibility2nd]

Really? No money from something causing so much agitation?

Upthread you’ll find FReepers far smarter than I commenting on the ways and means this FB thingie affects our computers.

All I know is that Free Republic takes so much longer to load because of the facebook plugins.

I know there are advantages to sharing and linking with various social media sites. But Facebook does not have a good reputation, as far as I’m concerned.

No money from that FB link? Well then, how about I pay you 10 bucks a month (to the FReepathon) to get rid of it?

[mrsmith]

I guess that’s a flash cookie.

[Jim Robinson]

Give it a rest. Don’t like facebook? Don’t click on the button.

[discostu]

No it’s true right now. Every single time FB changes their security settings there’s a hundred stories on the net and half of them wind up on FR. Even if they did do a customized one for FR all JimRob (or any FR nerd) has to do is the EXACT SAME THING you did a couple times a week.

[DJ MacWoW]

It’ll show up on YOUR FB page, just like if you hit the like/ share button on a Yahoo article or Youtube video.

Thanks for the info. However I don't use my screen name on FB.

[mnehring]

Well then, how about I pay you 10 bucks a month (to the FReepathon) to get rid of it?

I'll pay ya $15/mo additional to keep it.

[Jim Robinson]

I’m testing the link to see if we can gain new membership. They do not pay me. I do not pay them. But our facebook freeper members can easily use this button to post excerpts and links with one click from our threads to facebook and then all of their friends on facebook can then be exposed to and invited to try FR.

If I decide it’s worthwhile I’ll expand on it. If not I’ll just drop it.

[humblegunner]

Oh man, that little Facebook button has just loaded
an evil ZombieObamaDUmmie virus on my machine which
disables my ability to view.. BLOGS!

There goes half my internet fun right there in a lump.

[sam_paine]

all JimRob (or any FR nerd) has to do is the EXACT SAME THING you did a couple times a week.

LOL. See Post 153.

11/17/2010 2:26:07 PM · 153 of 155
Jim Robinson to sam_paine 

Give it a rest. Don’t like facebook? Don’t click on the button.
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Doesn't look like JimRob is going to be doing any checking, eh?

[DJ MacWoW]

WoW! Bill Gates wanted a pic of your underwear?!