{"id":145725,"date":"2019-07-30T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=145725"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:37:41","slug":"could-this-be-the-end-of-facebook-like-and-share-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/could-this-be-the-end-of-facebook-like-and-share-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Like and Share buttons may be removed from third-party websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Facebook Like button is an iconic symbol of what 21st-century\u00a0life has become<\/a>. We can use it to show the world that we like pretty much anything we see online. Your friend posts about something funny they\u2019ve just done, Like it. A local bar is running a special on chicken wings during NFL matches, definitely Like that. Oh, it\u2019s summertime and the sun is shining you say? Yep, I\u2019m going to like that too.<\/p>\n

The Facebook Like button and other alternatives from different social networks have become so ubiquitous that more often than naught, we tap them as soon as we feel anything remotely positive. In fact, there is a lot more going on with \u201cLike\u201d and \u201cShare\u201d buttons<\/a>, a lot more. So much in fact, that they might be about to start disappearing from third-party websites.<\/p>\n

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This ruling might change everything<\/h2>\n

The reason we\u2019ve slipped into the habit of liking everything we do online is because the like button and others of its ilk have popped on all sorts of websites all over the web. Now, however, thanks to a ruling in the ECJ<\/a> on a case involving a website called Fashion ID, this might all be about to change.<\/p>\n

In 2015, a German consumer group called Verbraucherzentrale NRW<\/a> (we\u2019ll just refer to them as NRW from now on) sought an injunction against a website called Fashion ID<\/a>. Basically, NRW claimed that the Facebook Like button on the Fashion ID site was sending data to Facebook that users didn’t consent to share.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The ECJ has ruled that since the Like button provided a financial benefit to Fashion ID, it is responsible for the user data the button collects and shares.<\/p>\n

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WE share a lot of data about ourselves when we visit pages that have like buttons. This new ECJ ruling will mean pages that have them will have to tell us what that data is so that we can give them permission to then share it with a third-party website like a social network.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The move means that when two parties, a social network and a third-party website, both benefit from a social button then both must share responsibility for the user-data collected<\/strong>. Both will need permission, and both will need to make sure their digital infrastructures are compliant with privacy laws and regulations.<\/p>\n

With global GDPR changes still fresh in everybody\u2019s minds due to Europe being a regulatory superpower, there is a good chance this judgement could affect websites all over the world and not just in the EU.<\/p>\n

Wrapping up<\/h2>\n

Do you think Facebook’s Like and Share buttons should be removed? Are they causing more trouble than they are worth? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n

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