How do I block Facebook without breaking web surfing?

[Elliott Chapin]

On 12/28/2011 12:09 PM, Scott Allen wrote:
> On 28 December 2011 10:59, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>  Because they're tracking everybody they can, *REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR
>> NOT THEY'RE MEMBERS OF FACEBOOK*.
> 
> However, if you've never signed into Facebook, I doubt they could tell
> who *you* actually are. They would just know "some unknown person
> using this device is/has [...]".
> 
> Regardless, it sounds like you could get away with just blocking
> cookies for the domains setting and reading these cookies, as opposed
> to blocking all traffic for them. Blocking just the cookies may be
> easier and may help with your problem of pages not loading.
> 

http://www.ghostery.com/
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-find-methods-kill-persistent-evercookie-101910

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