How to hide share buttons on websites

Social share buttons for Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn on news sites aren't harmless; they load third-party scripts that track your IP and link your browsing habits to your social profiles, even if you never click them.

Perimeter-based social widget blocking

Social widgets load third-party code. AdBlock Network blocks them at the root. The program makes read-only asynchronous requests to multiple independent endpoints to update its firewall, denying connections to social tracking domains at the Address layer.