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CoolPreviews. Fondation Mozilla. Adblock Plus. Banish Social Network Buttons Forever With Adblock. Recently, we taught you how to use Adblock to keep you safe from malware, proving everyone’s favorite ad-blocking tool does more than just block ads.

This week, thanks to a tip from a reader, we highlight yet another use for Adblock. Whether it’s at the bottom of an article or a collection hovering on the side of a page, buttons for social networks are everywhere. Some sites, like Facebook, go even further — filling sites with random pictures of a given blog’s fans or an assortment of headlines recently shared on Facebook (as though those headlines are any different than the headlines on the page itself). Obviously we at MakeUseOf understand the appeal of such things; there are a few buttons around this very article. By putting these here we make it easy for you, our reader, to share our content with others. This means your friends read our content, and may become regular readers, thus bringing our goal of global domination that much closer to fruition.

Installing Adblock Two Filters. Facebook Blocker: An Extension for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera, from your friends at /// Webgraph. How did we get here? We’re beginning to feel overwhelmed by the frequency with which Facebook links are starting to appear on many of the sites we visit in our daily routines, so we decided to do something about it. What does it do? This browser extension stops Facebook social plugins—including those within iFrames—from running on sites other than Facebook itself. This includes ‘Like’ buttons, ‘Recommended’ lists, and should also stop any Facebook scripts from tracking your browsing history. What about Facebook Connect? Don’t worry: sites that use Facebook Connect for sign in purposes, or that use Facebook as a conduit for other functionality will continue to work as expected. Who are you guys? We’re Webgraph, a small creative studio founded over 10 years ago in sunny South Florida by brothers Alex & Dan Rubin.

Wondering if we can help your organization? HTTPS Everywhere. HTTPS Everywhere is produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by using clever technology to rewrite requests to these sites to HTTPS. Information about how to access the project's Git repository and get involved in development is here. HTTPS Everywhere now uses the DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption dataset, to enable even greater coverage and protection for our users.

Original announcement can be found here: Further technical details on how we utilize Smarter Encryption: Modules pour Firefox. Video DownloadHelper.