Title: [Plugin: Sociable] Privacy Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Sociable] Privacy * [themoosemind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themoosemind/) * (@themoosemind) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/) * Hi, * your WordPress-Plugin automatically loads scripts from other websites. This allows other websites (Facebook and Google) to get information about my users. This is a privacy problem. * I’ve just seen that heise (a mayor german IT-newspaper) has a solution for this problem: No scripts are loaded from other websites. The icons for the social plugins are grayed out and if you hover over them you get the explanation: “This plugin is deactivated for privacy reasons. You have to click at it two times. The first time, the plugin gets loaded. The second time you can use it.” * Just take a look at the bottom of the article: [http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Linus-Tochter-1446576.html](http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Linus-Tochter-1446576.html) * I think this is a very good solution and I guess it will reduce the load time when you call a page. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Contributor [sociable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociable/) * (@sociable) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611573) * Hi themoosemind, * is a great contribution, we will consider for future versions and options. * Thanks for helping us improve Sociable!! * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611577) * **The plugin is closed**. * You **cannot** load any scripts, images,code or anything else from any other site unless you **first** tell the blog owner **and** they agree. * Until this is done the plugin will not be returned. * [cewyattjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cewyattjr/) * (@cewyattjr) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611620) * Eager to see this plugin updated and returned! * Thanks, * Chuck * Thread Starter [themoosemind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themoosemind/) * (@themoosemind) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611659) * [@mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mark/): I’m not quite sure if you closed the plugin because of my post. I hope not. I think it is clear for every WordPress owner that sociable can only work like this if the code from Google +/Facebook is loaded. And I guess many other WP-Plugins do it like this. [@sociable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociable/): I’m sorry that your plugin got closed because of my post. I hope it will be back soon. * To make one thing clear: I wanted the site **visitor** to be asked if a piece of code of Google+ / Facebook should be loaded, not the site owner. * This might also be interesting: [http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=50](http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=50) * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611714) * > To make one thing clear: I wanted the site visitor to be asked if a piece of > code of Google+ / Facebook should be loaded, not the site owner. * With regards to the behavior of other plugins, we only care about the site owner. They control the site, they control its behavior. * With regards to loading Facebook/Google/Twitter/whatever scripts, it is acceptable to load these third party scripts as long as the behavior is opt-in. * There’s also the “obviousness” test. If you have a plugin called “Facebook share”, then obviously it’s supposed to talk to Facebook. This is fine. If you have a switch in a plugin to enable a Google+ sharing button, then obviously it’s going to have to use Google’s code to do this. That’s acceptable. * However, when a plugin start loading scripts and images from the creator of the plugin’s site and doesn’t make this loading of scripts optional, then we don’t allow that. * Plugins should not contact any external sites until they have been told to do so by the person setting up/configuring the plugin, or for “obvious” cases. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611715) * After examining this plugin and trading some emails with Sociable, the plugin has been re-listed. * Plugin Contributor [sociable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociable/) * (@sociable) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611716) * Many thanks buddies, our team has been working hard on this unintentional issue that has been solved. * [@themoosemind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themoosemind/), we really appreciate your feedback and we´re so glad we´re re-listed! Please, spread the word and let everybody know we´ve many improvements and new features coming soon. * _[ [Signature moderated.](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Signatures)]_ * Thread Starter [themoosemind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themoosemind/) * (@themoosemind) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611745) * I’ve just found a plugin which does exactly what I’ve searched for: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-social-share-privacy-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-social-share-privacy-plugin/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: Sociable] Privacy’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/sociable.svg) * [Sociable](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sociable/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sociable/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sociable/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sociable/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sociable/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sociable/reviews/) * 8 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [themoosemind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themoosemind/) * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-privacy/#post-2611745) * Status: not resolved