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Dislike Button!

While I was researching for writing my post on getting notifications on Facebook profile pages, I came across an offer to add a Dislike Button to Facebook on the second of the two websites I mentioned, http://shadyhabit.com/get-it-now/ (if it wasn’t clear the last time, I’ve withheld the link to prevent people from going there before I finished explaining). I considered writing a short paragraph on it, but the post was already looking fairly long (and it was) so I decided to hold my mouth. You are now reading that unpublished section now.

The Dislike Button Link is featured as one of four buttons behind the pay wall. It is simply a link to a publicly visible cnet article. The conclusion? This website is trying to charge for other people’s content. Or rather it’s trying to get visitors to sign up for a subscription plan through an offer network that pays it. (Another blog post idea! Will I ever stop? ) The cnet article then points on to something I will bring up again at the end of this post (the suspense!).

I wouldn’t have posted this post if it wasn’t for a Spanish website that mentioned me. Google Translate claims that it called me some sort of technical analyzer and then quoted one of my reasons why the offers weren’t worth it–something I owe much to TechCrunch’s Scamville Posts. What I found interesting about the post, however, was the other half, which warned about the Dislike Button. After a bit more digging around, I realized that the post was really a translated version (yes, they did cite their source, so technically it’s fine) of an English post on Facebook Group Scams. This post states the following:

The group claims that by inviting all of your friends, becoming a fan, and installing their software, you can now have a “Dislike” feature on your pages. This is completely false, as it is impossible to add features to a website.

(I’m aware that the site probably has a Copyright policy, though there was none stated in a plainly visible space, so please let me know if this shouldn’t be here and I’ll remove it as soon as possible.)

This quote (and the site) is only half correct. (And I’ll admit, my other post is probably only half correct as well, but… erm… would anyone like to volunteer a $9.99 a month to help us find out? What if I say “Pweaaaaseeeee” in a really cutesy voice? Didn’t think so. Buy a deviantART subscription instead. It’s cheaper and… I digress.) The Facebook Group asks people to do manually what the notification group does automatically, and is therefore clearly even more unnecessary than the latter group. The group regains all of its lost honor, through its last step. It’s a bit.ly to… surprise, surprise! An actual Firefox plugin page! I have to admit that I haven’t actually tried the extension since I use Google Chrome and not Firefox, but it should be perfectly sound because even Lifehacker, a prominent blog (where I got the image for this post from, actually), wrote favorably about it.

And as most Firefox users should know (and if they don’t they can find out now! ^.^), addons can edit websites. This one does it by hosting lists of dislikes on each post item on some external server (or at least that’s what I gather). In fact, Firefox is so customizable that add ons can even edit the browser’s graphical functionality!

And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for… (if you haven’t figured it out by now) Where does the cnet page link?

Facebook Dislike :: Add-ons for Firefox « I hear it’s good! And it’s a shiny, glowy blue link!