How to stop Facebook from browser tracking you

Many websites and this includes Facebook (Like) and Google Plus (+1) use buttons for recommending web pages on social networks. These social networks also monitor your browsing behaviour, even if you don’t have an account and this is also happens even if you have third-party cookies disabled.
ShareMeNot is a an extension in Chrome and an add-on in Firefox that allows you to stop Google and Facebook as well as other social networks from tracking you online. By default ShareMeNot blocks, AddThis; Digg; Facebook; Google+; LinkedIn; Pinterest; StumbleUpon; and Twitter. Check out my post from January last year where I suggest you use ShareMeNot.
ShareMeNot will now completely replace the buttons with local stand-in buttons (text). This design allows ShareMeNot to avoid making any requests at all to the trackers until you click on one of the buttons. The old version made requests to trackers to load the buttons, while ShareMeNot removed cookies from those requests, they could still reveal information like your IP address. Here is how you use ShareMeNot in Chrome and Firefox:
Google Chrome (extension)

• Download and install ShareMeNot extension
• You will find the ShareMeNot icon in the address bar
• Click the icon – you can choose to > ‘Allow all trackers this time’ or deselect particular trackers by unticking them – then click > Done
• *You can also click > ‘Manage tracker blocking’ – this lets you allow certain types of buttons on specific pages on that website. Click the > ‘Exceptions’ button next to the service you want to allow
• Enter the domain name in the > ‘Add a new hostname pattern’ box and press ENTER. The exceptions are listed in the above box. You can cancel these exceptions by using > ‘Remove All Exceptions’ button or click > ‘Close’ when you done
• To use any button i.e.+1 (Google+) on a one-off basis click the ShareMeNot button for that service. This will reinstate the i.e the +1 button for that page. You will need to reload the page to allow trackers that were blocked when the page was loaded.
• Note: You can also run this tool in incognito mode

Mozilla Firefox (add-on)

• Download and install ShareMeNot add-on
• You will find the ShareMeNot icon is in the bottom right corner
• Click the icon – you can choose > ‘Allow all trackers this time’ or deselect particular trackers by unticking them – then click > Done
• To use any button i.e.+1 (Google+) on a one-off basis click the ShareMeNot button for that service. This will reinstate the i.e the +1 button for that page. You will need to reload the page to allow trackers that were blocked when the page was loaded.
• Note: You can switch off ‘automatic updates’ from > Tools > add-ons

*This feature is not available in the Mozilla Firefox add-on
Why protect your online identity? Your personal information belongs to you, however your personal information is of considerable interested to third parties. Third parties will sell or rent your data to other parties so they can collect information about you. I believe that you should have total awareness and control of your personal online data. If you are reading this post, then you are probably interested in using this useful privacy extension / add-on for protecting your online identity.