How to hide social share buttons on websites

The Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn share buttons on news portals are far from harmless: they load external scripts that track your IP and link your reading habits to your social profiles, even if you never click on them.

Perimeter-based social widget blocking

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