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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[DJ MacWoW]

I don’t even share information with myself now.

LOL!! There was a thread on FR awhile back that told how to turn off sneaky FB settings. I used every tip in there and FB doesn't have my personal addy.

[listenhillary]

There was some new stuff that sneaked in. Don’t ask me as I can’t get to my facebook now that I don’t share info with myself. kidding

(Really - I can’t get to FB behind a corporate firewall, so I can’t find the post)

[listenhillary]

I think the new fix was disallowing all apps from accessing your personal information. There was an option to turn them all off. So I did.

[DJ MacWoW]

There was a new app about maps and your location. That FR thread told where to go and how to stop it so I shut all that stuff down. I know people who have where they live listed but I do not.

[COUNTrecount]

I have just received a number of emails sent from a business Blackberry from someone in China/Hong Kong which contained this person’s FB picture on it.

This is unbelievable.

[listenhillary]

I did that one awhile ago. This was something else.

[DJ MacWoW]

Don’t know about that one. I may or may not have caught it. Let me know later, when you can, what it is.

[EternalVigilance]

I don’t even share information with myself now.

LOL...instant classic post.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

“There were some “zots” on the above thread.”

LOL! Life, Liberty and God seem to frighten most libs. I wish we could zot them all...

[llmc1]

I use duckduckgo.com instead of google. It’s supposed to be more private.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

What we really need is a ZOT button. :)

[DJ MacWoW]

This was the best of the ZOTS though. :-D

Smite me, Oh Mighty Smiter!

[FreeAtlanta]

I don’t like the I Like.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Ixquick.com (aka Frontpage.com) is alledly private.

I believe they might route their searches elsewhere for the actual crunching, but allegedly anyway they strip identifying information from searches.

[llmc1]

Thanks. I tried a couple searches and it looks good.

[Responsibility2nd]

I just wonder how much $$$ Jim Rob is receiving in advertizing fees from Facebook?

And if he is OK with shilling for Facebook, will other forms of advertising be far behind?

[KosmicKitty]

I, for one, am not going to get sucked into facebook

[DJ MacWoW]

It’s there because FR has a FB page.

[JimRed]

I am tired of the prying going on, now, if you use Google, it fills out the fields as you type.

I don't Google, I Bing. Have not noticed anything like that other than a list of previous visit matches for what you are entering, which can be turned off.

[COUNTrecount]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/facebook-privacy-scandal-facebooks-watergate/story?id=11912201

Facebook: Another Privacy Scandal
“The Journal found that in 25 instances the third-party app companies were taking in users’ Facebook identification numbers. The number then tied into a user’s profile and could identify the person by name, no matter how secure his or her privacy settings were.”