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Users don't need to interact with them, when a site adds the button to their page it allows that code to track you around the net. It's still generating revenue even if you never click on it.
Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.
Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.
You can also consider it a form of advertising for the platforms. The buttons not only suggest for the user that they should use an indicated platform, but give them an immediate way to engage with it as well. It's manipulation, all the way down.
Yeah, but you can do the same tracking without actually displaying any buttons, so the point stands.
Aren't these buttons still around just to track you even if you don't interact with them? Since most people don't logout from their social media on their personal device.
In uBlock Origin activate the filterlist EasyList – Social Widgets to remove those.
You'd be surprised how the average person interacts with the Internet .
Share button > copy link > paste unedited url to SMS
Just Sms a photo of the link.
I think you wrote FAX wrong.
Can someone pdf it tho first? I need pdf.
Missed a step where they Google Facebook.com - click on the top sponsored link to go to Facebook - post the URL
Or just send a link to a Google search result page, which ends up being a paragraph of URL
Well I sure as hell don't use that one.
Tracking. The links themselves will likely have unique referrer IDs so the platform knows where a click comes from.
Also, they track website visitors without them even clicking the button. Just loading the "share" icon from the social media website allows them to see that you are reading that specific article, and if they recognise your IP or can fingerprint your browser then they can tie it to your social media account (advertising profile).
That's not really a thing anymore since the GDPR went into force. These days, websites integrate these buttons directly into the webpage rather than loading them dynamically. The buttons in the screenshot are custom designs, too, so they didn't get loaded from the social media companies.
Just loading the "share" icon from the social media website allows them to see that you are reading that specific article
The buttons aren't necessary for this though. They can do that with a tag, or a hidden 1x1 pixel
Yes, but Facebook can't just place that script on other people's pages.
That's the point of the buttons. Website designers place that shit themselves.
It's also to remind people to post them in social media, clicking them or not.
On mobile, I recommend downloading a URL cleaner to scrape away that shit.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people share an article and the link is the size of the Magna Carta
I still want to know why they show up on porn sites...
Cause I'm sitting here watching backdoor sluts 9 and thinking to myself; "you know who'd really enjoy this? Grandma."
Those are there so republican senators can accidentally tell on themselves.
I also recently had a porn site ask me, if I'd like to login with a Google account. Absolutely fuck that Google login dialog on any webpage that has it, but why in the world would anyone log into a porn site with it?
To comment on the video of course
🤷 Sometimes you need a recipe for muffins, other times you need 'instructional videos' on muff diving. Google is here to help, lmao
Grandma was very clear at the last family gathering, that she sees all parts after 3 as very derivative and boring cashgrabs
Backdoor Sluts 9? that movie makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2
Gotta let her know people are stealing her content
I don't. Fuck each and everyone of those spy balls.
I don't think I've ever noticed those lol.
Who needs adblock when you're just oblivious
Who needs adblock when you’re just oblivious
People who are oblivious as they browse are some of those who need it most. As they easily fall for "promoted content" that is literally just ads.
Yeah ive fallen for those a few times on tik tok and the like
Share buttons are fucking useless IMO. You have to jump through a dozen screens to actually share them, or just copy the link and paste it where you want shared.
They aren't useless at all, just not in the sense you expect. Those icons are hosted on the respective website and therefore serve as a giant tracking pixel. Better block them altogether.
Those are still a thing? I adblocked them a long time ago.
Quite a few people use them on the more modern sites like bluesky/mastodon (also rss/email etc...).
Its like less than 99% of people from what I see on my sites (Im a software developer) but its enough to make a difference.
it's like less than 99% of people
NGL this doesn't really narrow it down
As far as I can tell they are easy to add and everyone else is doing it, so the people who make decisions about the website don't want to feel left out. Kind of like how those sites became popular in the first place, easy and perceived popularity.
