Privoxy rule to block Facebook spying
- by bignose
Recently, my server's Privoxy rules to block Facebook's spying have failed. How can I block current Facebook spying links?
Since soon after [the inception of Facebook's so-called “Open Graph” cross-site tracking widgets][1] (those “Like” bugs on numerous websites), I blocked them by using this rule (in user.action) on our site's Privoxy server:
{ +block-as-image{People-tracking button.} }
.facebook.com/(plugins|widgets)/(like|fan).*
That worked fine; the spying bugs no longer appeared on any web page.
Today I noticed that they're all making it past that filter [edit: no, they're not].
SOLUTION: The proxy was being silently ignored, though this was not obvious in the client. The above rule continues to work fine.
