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Meta Is Killing Off the External Facebook Like Button (engadget.com) 23

Posted by BeauHD from the end-of-an-era dept.
Meta is retiring Facebook's external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook's role within Meta continues to shrink.Engadget reports: The blog post from Meta explains that site admins shouldn't have to take any additional steps as a result of the change, although they can choose to remove the plugins before the discontinue date. Any remaining plugins will "gracefully degrade," which sounds much more dramatic than what will actually happen, which is that they'll render as a 0x0 invisible element.
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  • Decline solved by removing features (Score:3)

    by sinkskinkshrieks ( 6952954 ) on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:32PM (#65786878)
    Absolute genius. /s

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by evanh ( 627108 )

      Followed by Meta deletes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. And the world celebrates.

    • Who said this is to solve the decline? This sounds more like depreciating a button that not even your mum clicks while pooping. Remember Facebook is an AI company now. They want to feed you a steady diet of AI slop. No need to link any internet content anymore.

      This is about the least retarded decision they've made in a long time.

  • Why isn't there ever a hate button? (Score:3)

    by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 ) on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:34PM (#65786880)
    I usually don't like anything I see on I Facebook, and I'm much more inclined to hate it, so maybe there should be a button for that?

    • Why isn't there ever a hate button?

      There is! Its up the top of the browser window, and looks like a little [x] in the tab next to the tab name

    • Facebook want you to be unhappy/outraged, their research shows anger drives engagement. This was why there's angry react emojis, people respond to it. Give up Facebook and you'll be happier.

    • Coming from a grizzled old Viking or video game character that question seems naive or maybe sarcastic .. but I'll bite.

      It's a trap. You will think the way we tell you to think. Like it, buddy, or fuck off. Everything is a use case and a process funnel leading to a prescribed outcome. You aren't allowed to hate something.

      It implies there are no other alternatives. It removes subtlety and choice. Also pragmatically, you have to edit and limit all program inputs so bad data isn't entered, practical for databa
  • My browser blocks/hides social media like-links - I haven't seen a "Like" icon in years.
  • How long until Fakebook goes the way of AOL?

    • AOL is still a zombie crawling around on the Internet. Facebook soon to join the zombie apocalypse I hope. Another aspect of the dead Internet theory.

  • You use a web browser to book a flight, do banking, use medical or municipal services, shopping. You are actually working for those companies by doing data entry. The web is for getting work done now.

    Searching and getting back all AI generated blog style websites of bland garbage has killed the usefulness of the web. People would likely use TikTok or favorite social media app, and never or rarely leave it.

    Beyond the aforementioned use cases, the web is garbagized (TM). It's unusable because everything is p
  • The good old "Like" button was a seemingly innocuous addition, but it was one of the great tracking bugs of Web 2.0, from both 3rd party tracking of users, to recent "silent" communication with other pages and apps running on a device to track and target you, most (decent) browsers these days block it and its ilk from appearing on pages these days. So Facebook/Meta can try and claw back a little goodwill by "Retiring" it.
  • I don't liek facebook and certainly not Meta
  • Hurts someone's little feelings same as on YouTube. Let the the people know your content stinks !!!
  • While I've refused to install the FB app on my phone, instead using a mobile browser to access FB, they have degraded that experience so much it's almost pointless to even bother anymore. And this "degrading" is across all the mobile browsers I've tried. I'm way past ready for FB to be killed off by over saturation of internet crap they keep piling on that I have no interest in.

  • "Facebook is giving up the external like button." OK, I'm totally blown away. What's an "external" like button? Is there an "internal" like button? Is it just another way of saying that all "like" buttons are going away?

    Subject 2, what's with all the hate for Facebook? I don't use Twitter / X, Truth Social, Tic-Toc, Instagram, or really any other platforms. FB goes away, and I'm disconnected from around 200+ friends, 'cuz I don't have most of their emails, and wouldn't want to be on a yahoo-groups

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