facebook network issue... on third party sites

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facebook network issue... on third party sites

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don't get it wrong, this thread is not about any issue with NS and Facebook, it's about thousands and thousands of sites connected to Facebook. The problem is that many of these sites are connecting to FBCDN.net, and the new behavior is to trigger the opening of a second tab when launching the site, this second tab showing a list of people who "like" that site and said it on Facebook :mrgreen: This site does that:
http://www.conceivablytech.com/

You can sort the problem by marking fbcdn.net as untrusted, but then you'll have to allow it again, temporarily, each time you want to access the actual facebook site. There is a workaround in Chrome, but not in Firefox. Actually a Google employee made an extension called Facebook Disconnect that prevents third party sites from connecting to Facebook while javascript is still allowed on Facebook site itself:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/de ... hpglaidiec

So my question is: would there be a way, in a future version, to integrate such a function in NoScript? right now I'm using "NotScripts" in Chrome with access allowed to facebook connections, while running the other extension (just mentioned above) keeps me safe from Facebook while I'm browsing anything else.

thanks.
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Re: facebook network issue... on third party sites

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Re: facebook network issue... on third party sites

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Giorgio Maone wrote:http://noscript.net/faq#qa8_10
okay thanks ;) I admit that I never used ABE before, so this should be a good start.

edit: I intuitively thought that there might be something already to achieve what I wanted to do, no need to add I'm not disappointed 8-)
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Re: facebook network issue... on third party sites

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okay works fantastic, thanks again :)
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