How to block annoying facebook and other social network widgets

Posted by lesmana on Super User See other posts from Super User or by lesmana
Published on 2011-11-25T14:45:58Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 9:41 UTC
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We have facebook buttons, twitter buttons, linkedin buttons, google+ buttons, stumbleupon buttons, younameit buttons. These social network buttons and widgets are creeping up the internets like the plague. Sometimes even with cool javascript popups which obscure content if moused over.

How can I get rid of them?

I mean stuff like this:

annoying social network buttons on arstechnica.com

and this:

annoying social network buttons on 9gag.com

and last but not least, this:

annoying social network buttons on superuser.com

How can I get rid of them?

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