Button Tracking

[apollo702]

Does NoScript( In conjunction with numerous other security and privacy apps such as Ghostery, Request Policy, Cookie Whitelist With Buttons...) block tracking buttons from sites such as Facebook, Twitter...etc...? There are a number of add-ons appearing for that specific function but I was wondering if this was already covered.

[Thrawn]

NoScript will block them if you leave Facebook blocked.
RequestPolicy will block them unless you allow the specific site(s) to contact Facebook.
Between those two, I don't bother with Ghostery.
Adblock Plus has an antisocial subscription that should do it.

[dhouwn]

Note that blocking JS alone might not be enough, e.g. in the case of Facebook iframes need to be blocked too if you want to prevent any request going to their servers (and thus making it possible to track you). The mentioned RequestPolicy add-on might help you in the feat of preventing requests going to 3rd parties and NoScript has a comparable functionality (ABE), just not controllable through a simple UI.

[apollo702]

Thank you for the clarifications. Sites like Facebook are really nothing more than information harvesters and I block the daylights out of them and I wanted to make absolutely sure that I had all my bases covered. I have a host of tech skills but things like coding, graphics... are not among them. I am first and foremost an entertainer so in many ways my greatest skill will be as a salesman. I am starting my own tech site explaining tech in English and I am going to have entire writeups on Facebook alone explaining why it really isn't a social network at all. Friends are just the cheese in the trap so they can spy on people. The message needs to get out- because the average person has no idea what is going on. They are like lambs being led to the slaughter...