They're discontinuing the Facebook Like button on third-party sites. That's pretty wild! The Like button used to be Facebook's major initiative back in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_like_button
Media sites in particular used to try to drive people to click the Like button, causing their articles to appear prominently on Facebook. And since it was an <iframe> running on every site, Facebook would automatically know what articles you viewed, data that they could use to target ads to you.
How/why did that die out, I wonder?
toomuchtodo•1h ago
No longer necessary to siphon data from users across the web using this beacon perhaps.
dfabulich•1h ago
Media sites in particular used to try to drive people to click the Like button, causing their articles to appear prominently on Facebook. And since it was an <iframe> running on every site, Facebook would automatically know what articles you viewed, data that they could use to target ads to you.
How/why did that die out, I wonder?
toomuchtodo•1h ago