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I don't really like that he puts tracking javascript in his addons. Take a look at the source of this Facebook Disconnect addon, its at the bottom. Why don't people just write a simple bash script that toggles blocks for the facebook domains in the hosts file?


Can you link to that? The source of the extension is about a dozen lines and doesn't contain anything of the sort.

http://code.google.com/p/byoogle/source/browse/trunk/google/...


I'm sorry I was wrong. The file that the install button does not link to the addon like the Firefox addon site does, so saving the link is not the addon. I apologize.


Non programmers don't use bash scripts.


Heck, most programmers don't use bash scripts.


Edit: I'm sorry guys, I guess the file that the install button links to is not the addon itself like the Firefox addon site does, so saving it does not give you the addon. I'm retarded. He does not have tracking cookies, I apologize.


To my knowledge, you can't do any wildcards in a hosts file, and facebook already has a fair number of subdomains and can create more at will.




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