MSE and Facebook

WatlingA5

After reading the article about OVO's accountancy problems I went on to read the comments. After the first few there's a notice on the line of "load more comments". Clicking on that brings a pop-up that invites me to allow FB to track me. I don't like FB, I'm not on FB and don't want to be. But clicking on Don't Allow apparently stops me reading any more comments. They are simply not accessible. Repeating the Don't Allow just had the same result. Seems that unless I bow to FB I can't read all the comments on MSE.

Doesn't seem right to me. Unless FB is now running MSE...

Link to article: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2020/01/ovo-energy-to-pay-p8-9-million-after-overcharging-customers-and-/

jamesd

MSE seems to be using the Facebook Comments product. Regrettably that means that those who don't want  to be tracked around the web by Facebook no longer get the feature.

You may want to install a browser plugin that blocks tracking because MSE also uses social media link buttons and tracking people as they move around the web is the primary reason those buttons are supplied.

WatlingA5

Thanks James - I'll investigate the plugin. Using Safari on a Mac. Call me a Luddite (youngsters can Google that...) but Facebook is just too intrusive for my liking.

jamesd

Smashing web tracking networks, perhaps by making them illegal, seems like a goo idea. I think that the Firefox browser has a progressive "will not track" policy that you might like.