[liberationtech] FB-like "Twitter-connect" soon. How can we avoid all this tracking?

[Greg Norcie]

At least Twitter (unlike Facebook) repects Do Not Track, making it
relatively painless to opt out:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169453
--
Greg Norcie (greg at norcie.com)
GPG key: 0x1B873635

On 5/25/12 2:14 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
> On 25/05/12 08:33, The Dod wrote:
> > How can we minimize the damage? The key (IMHO) is a webmaster (and
> > user) awareness campaign to use a [yet to be developed]
> > "fetch-a-button" ajax widget with buttons like (lame phrasing): "I
> > want to like this" or "I want to tweet this". These would fetch the
> > code (and thus - snitch) only for people planning to /publicly
> > admit/ they've watched the page :-)
>
> > The widget doesn't seem too hard to write (famous last words), but
> > the awareness campaign seems to be a much heavier task.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Someone's already written the code, but I'm not sure what to do about
> publicity - maybe translating the docs from German to English would help?
>
> https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html
>
> https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
> _______________________________________________
> liberationtech mailing list
> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
>
> Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to:
>
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
>
> If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you
> click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a
> daily digest?"
>
> You will need the user name and password you receive from the list
> moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here:
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
>
> Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator.
>
> Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech