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=== Tracking protection from social widgets === | === Tracking protection from social widgets === | ||
Social widgets such as the Facebook “Like” button and the Google “+1” button can be used for tracking, are embedded on 20% of sites worldwide and generate billions of impressions daily. These widgets transmit identifiers such as cookies on load, regardless of whether the user interacts with the widget. In some cases the NSA has used this feature to identify surveillance targets | Social widgets such as the Facebook “Like” button and the Google “+1” button can be used for tracking, are embedded on 20% of sites worldwide and generate billions of impressions daily. These widgets transmit identifiers such as cookies on load, regardless of whether the user interacts with the widget. In some cases the NSA has used this feature to identify surveillance targets [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/]. | ||
For users who have a first-party relationship with these service providers, blocking network loads entirely is not an option. However, we can improve privacy properties of these widgets by doing one of the following: | For users who have a first-party relationship with these service providers, blocking network loads entirely is not an option. However, we can improve privacy properties of these widgets by doing one of the following: | ||