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Social Share Privacy

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More and more websites use like-buttons from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. However, these buttons send information to these social networks even if the user do not click them, but only if they are present on a webpage. This way these networks are able to track which websites users are visiting and are able to build fairly complete browser histories of their users. Because this is neither what a user might expect nor what many website operators that embed like-buttons want, heise online developed a jQuery plugin that provides an alternative way of using these social services.