LJ is being obnoxious again

[redbird]

Is there any way to get rid of those new Facebook links on the LJ comment pages?

I'm seeing them on other people's journals, including those of people who I am fairly sure don't even have facebook accounts.

[I can set all comments to come only to Dreamwidth rather than LJ, but that won't help me with seeing this garbage on my friends' journal entries.]

ETA: The "options" link offers to post all entries to facebook and/or twitter automatically; there is no option to turn the thing off so I won't keep seeing it.

ETA 2: It now seems that if I don't turn it on, I won't see it on my own entries (thank you, lj user="sbisson site="livejournal.com">. What's not clear is whether, if someone wanted to cross-post their public entries, locked ones would be exposed to deliberate or accidental repost by commenters.

And at least last night, I was seeing those links on the entries of people who I don't think had turned them on.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Not until someone comes up with a Greasemonkey script, which I'm sure that someone will in short order.

They're meant for you to use with your own Facebook, rather than the journal owner. Assuming you have one, and LJ merrily assumes that you might someday!

[aedifica]

I just started seeing those too. Ugh! (And bad placement, too--I can no longer type my comment, tab once, and hit 'Enter' to post.)

[ellarien]

There already is a Greasemonkey script, apparently, if that helps.

Agreed that this very annoying behavior on LJ's part. I do have a Facebook account, but as it has my real name on it I'm quite careful to keep it separate from my LJ. And I shudder to imagine the disjointed sort of conversations that would result from crossposting random comments!

[adrian_turtle]

Thanks for pointing to the Greasemonkey script.

[randomness]

Huh. I see the links but they are always unclickable, which is just fine. I haven't told LJ about my Facebook or Twitter accounts, so that might be why. I'm not sure.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I don't think this one counts as obnoxious.

There are two new features that turned on overnight. One lets users log in using Facebook (like openID) for commenting. The other updates the old Facebook posting tool with the ability to send comments as well as posts.

You can make sure that comments can't be sent to Facebook using this page: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=extensions

(Your account is set up not to do it). See http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html for more details.

[redbird]

OK, from the FAQ it appears that the potential security hole is that if someone wants any of their stuff cross-posted, random other people can inadvertently cross-post comments to locked posts (with risks along the lines of a third party thus seeing "Pat, sorry about your herpes flair-up" or "yes, your boss is a real schmuck" in response to a locked post they can't see). And the rest of us just find ourselves staring at these stupid links on the pages of lots of people who I am reasonably sure didn't turn on FB/twitter crossposting.

So probably not reason to stop making locked posts here, but still irritating, and still LJ's patented "we're not going to answer your worried questions in response to our unclear news posts," (in this case the reassurance is in the new FAQ, but often they just don't answer).