Obvious when you think about it but 32Bit Chrome will fail to connect to make the initial the SSL/HTTPs connection and so download/prompt for the client.
Switch to Firefox (Other 64Bit browsers are available) and you'll be good.
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Blocking Facebook Connect/Graph
Browsing the web and you hit a site that displays your friends list, or suggests you 'like' this page because xyz of your friends also do.
Never paid that much attention until my g/f today mentioned my friends appear on sites she looks at. Of course they do! WTF did I never consider this.
Not that we have that type of secret relationship but when I started digging into Facebook connect, or now graph as it seems to be the more I hated it.
I'm way late to this party but to block this:
and/or add these to the filter list:
Never paid that much attention until my g/f today mentioned my friends appear on sites she looks at. Of course they do! WTF did I never consider this.
Not that we have that type of secret relationship but when I started digging into Facebook connect, or now graph as it seems to be the more I hated it.
I'm way late to this party but to block this:
- Install AdBlock - https://getadblock.com/ & pay this guy money, its a great product!
- Create some filters to block access to the connect URLs
and/or add these to the filter list:
facebook.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.netThats it.
facebook.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
fbcdn.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
fbcdn.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
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