How do I block Facebook without breaking web surfing?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Scott Allen <mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| 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 [...]".

Identity is a really complex concept.

In some sense your identity is the set of web sites you visit.

| 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.

In FireFox, I blocked facebook cookies and yet they reappeared.  I
don't know how that happened.  I cleaned them out again and they
haven't yet reappeared (I just checked).
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