If you are increasingly concerned about the numerous "connect to Facebook" links on too many websites to count (not here, but if you want to put this article on your Facebook page, by all means do so) or you don't feel like the vaguely creepy guy running it has the best interests of members in mind and shouldn't have your web browsing data, a Google engineer is here for you.
He created a utility (for Chrome only, of course - Google is not the Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm of the Internet either) called Facebook Disconnect, which blocks Facebook Connect functionality and all traffic from third party sites to Facebook servers if you search the web using Chrome.
Meaning; assuming it works as well as people say it works, it will prevent the sending of data back to Facebook from the one million sites that use the Facebook Connect service.
Says TechCrunch, Kennish created the extension out of his own desire to be Facebook-free and with no encouragement from Google, even though he works there. “Nobody at Google asked or encouraged me to do so, or probably, even knows who I am.”
Let's see how long that lasts.
