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Unsocialize: The Link Unsocializer 1.2.4

by Mike Lawrence

Provides a right-click menu item for direct links, bypassing Facebook's "social readers" and other social link sharing apps.

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About this Add-on

When your Facebook News Feed contains items such as "John Doe read an article", the article link often redirects you to a "social reader" app install request, which will access your personal information and post on your timeline.

This extension provides a right-click menu item: "Unsocialize", which will open the linked article in a new tab, bypassing the install request and any other tracking metrics.

It also works for some other types of links (e.g. Viddy videos, Socialcam links), and also can be used to bypass tracking of clicks on regular links, too.

*Known exceptions*: Does not work for Washington Post Social Reader links. They are much more challenging. I am working on it.

I appreciate your comments, suggestions and bug notifications: mikeklawrence@gmail.com

Developer’s Comments

This is also a Google Chrome extension. The source for both is available on GitHub at https://github.com/mikeklawrence/Unsocialize

Version Information

Version 1.2.4 Released July 4, 2012 12.3 kB Works with Firefox 2.0 and later

Fixed issue in contextMenu event listener where contextEvent.target is a DOM node nested several levels deep underneath an "A" node.

Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0
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