SocialSharePrivacy

It's against Facebook's terms: > 8. You must not use or make derivative use of Facebook icons, or use terms for Facebook features and functionality, if such use could confuse users into thinking that the reference is to Facebook features or functionality. We know that Facebook uses that paragraph against alternative like buttons. Many years ago German computer magazine publisher Heise created a version of the like button that works like this: The button is initially greyed out and has to be activated by a slide button to be used. Communication with Facebook's servers starts only when the button is activated. After threats from Facebook Heise had to change the look of the initial button so that is has none of the Facebook branding. Only the dynamically loaded original Facebook button looks like Facebook like button. [1] Link to the origin

This somewhat more fancy implementation of that idea is used on many German websites: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff or https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy You can see an implementation of it on Schneier blog: https://www.schneier.com/

The term for them is two-click like buttons, or privacy friendly like buttons. There are a number of implementations[0][1][2] Note that Facebook doesn't like having the loading or function of their like button altered (they want the third-party page loads for targetting)[3] Note also that some of the share button widgets that aggregate the different social networks into one widget (like AddThis and ShareThis) pitch themselves are more privacy friendly but they are much worse - they will track and target you and sell your data to every network they can. They also use (or used) evercookie techniques such as canvas fingerprinting or cache-based fingerprinting for persistent and privacy-setting resistant tracking[4]. [0] https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook [1] http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy...

Social Share Privacy is a jQuery plugin that lets you add social share buttons to your website that don't allow the social sites to track your users. The buttons are first disabled and a user needs to click them to enable them. So in order to e.g. like a site on facebook with these social share buttons a user needs to click two times. But in return for this extra click a user can only be tracked by this third party sites when he decides to enable the buttons. Using the settings menu a user can also permanently enable a social share button. Repository to fork: https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

Note: OP's article is from 2011. There are some jQuery plugins (started by the German publisher Heise) which implement 2-click sharing, where you have to click once for the site to load the actual Like-button, then you have to click a second time to share or 'like' it on Facebook. This way you can have social media buttons without the tracking. Original for Facebook/Twitter/Google+ (German): http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ Fork for several services (English): https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

Heise.de started "two clicks for better privacy" that Bruce Scheiner also uses on his blog. http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ & https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

There's also "two clicks for better privacy" like Heise.de started and that Scheiner also uses on his blog. http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ & https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

Is it as easy for a non-webdev as this https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy If you have a better solution, you should publicize it.