Sharethis and Addthis replacements?
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Hello,
I recently noticed the ShareThis sharing buttons that I added onto my Concrete5 site include some additional third-party tracking. This is from a company called scorecardresearch.
I added the ShareThis code directly from their website.
I also looked into AddThis and they also utilize scorecardresearch tracking and their does not seem to be an option to opt out.
Does anyone have any recommendations for other social sharing solutions. I would like my users to be able to share a particular page.
I recently noticed the ShareThis sharing buttons that I added onto my Concrete5 site include some additional third-party tracking. This is from a company called scorecardresearch.
I added the ShareThis code directly from their website.
I also looked into AddThis and they also utilize scorecardresearch tracking and their does not seem to be an option to opt out.
Does anyone have any recommendations for other social sharing solutions. I would like my users to be able to share a particular page.
There should be an option to remove the tracking code from share this. Had the tracking code on a site and had to look into it a number of months ago!
I will look into the setup again on their website. Maybe I can choose a selection to opt-out. From what I read they turn on third-party tracking (scorecardresearch) by default for all users using their sharing service.
That is why I was trying to track down an alternative.
Do you have any recommendations on alternatives. I was looking into addthis a bit tonight.
Any advice on what others are using is greatly appreciated as well.
That is why I was trying to track down an alternative.
Do you have any recommendations on alternatives. I was looking into addthis a bit tonight.
Any advice on what others are using is greatly appreciated as well.
I appologize. Its the add this I was thinking of. There's a data track address bar setting in the provided code that should be set to false to remove the URL strings!
Thanks for the assistance. That is great to know if I replace my social sharing buttons with AddThis! I was not aware it I could simply change that to false. Thanks
As a follow-up to this posting, I ended up going with AddtoAny as an alternate sharing platform option to Sharethis and Addthis.
Good find. I wasn't aware of this option. I'll have to check it out!
