[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3421764 ] facebook trackers

Actionsfile feedback item #3421764, was opened at 2011-10-11 13:01
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Category: filter: other problem
Group: None
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: dan stahlke (dstahlke)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: facebook trackers

Initial Comment:
Maybe some people like having Facebook's "like" button and "who likes" panes on various pages (e.g. on arstechnica.com) but I consider it to be a tracker.  The rule below blocks all of the Facebook stuff on the pages I have looked at, and doesn't seem to affect the performance of Facebook.

{+block{Facebook "like" trackers.}}
www.facebook.com/(extern|plugins)/(login_status|like|likebox|activity).php


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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2011-10-16 13:53

Message:
Thanks for the report.

Nowadays Privoxy's default configuration isn't supposed to cause too many
problems, so I'm not sure if blocking these URLs by default would be a good
idea.

Putting the section inside a comment in user.action as a suggestion
shouldn't be a problem, though.

Eventually we should probably think about adding another action file with
more aggressive site-specific sections. Added as TODO list item #99.

Can you provide example URLs for regression testing?

On arstechnica.com I only see:
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Farstechnica&width=300&colorscheme=light&show_faces=false&stream=false&header=false&height=62&border_color=%23FFFFFF
and
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=arstechnica.com&width=300&height=370&header=false&colorscheme=light&recommendations=false&border_color=%23FFFFFF

But given that they are inside mysterious <iclint> tags they don't seem to
be actually requested.

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