What is it?

The face book beacon is basically a way for Facebook to harvest data about you and for companies to get more business. Just think of the beacon as a Facebook employee standing behind you while you surf and taking notes(its not this bad since not every site does it). I have not found any evidence of a way to “opt-out” or if Facebook saves data when a site such as Fandango sends it data. I may be over exaggerating this but i am not a fan of people logging what i do.

They’re doing what!? Help me stop it!

1. Install the siteblock add on for Firefox by going here and clicking Install Now and choosing the install option.
2. It will ask to restart Firefox after installation is done, let it restart
3. Now from Firefox select the tools drop down and choose Add ons
4. Select BlockSite and click the Preferences button
5. Click Add which is under the “Blacklist” section
6. It will ask you what to block just type in http://*facebook.com/beacon/*
7. Click Ok twice and close the Addons box you opened before

Thats it Facebook can no longer receive any data! If you want to make sure you did this right, click here and Firefox should notify you that it is blocked!

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