Remove social media links from ProtonMail website
Social media links are used for tracking.
People can still share about ProtonMail without using social media links.
I hope social media links don't end up in users email accounts.

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Smith Michael commented
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Thanks in advance.
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[Deleted User] commented
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njs.2019 commented
And a lot of other errors, get to work!
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njs.2019 commented
Get rid of the social media links, post networks i would use.
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Anonymous commented
I just read that FB is collecting info on non users when they visit any page that has links to FB. Remove ALL social media links.
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Jay commented
they are just images that are linked.
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whatever commented
You might be interested in "privacy badger", an addon from the EFF :)
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Basho commented
Those links at the top of the web page are not the usual "Like this on <service>" links, which can do tracking. Instead they are links to the ProtonMail pages on those services. They even use local copies of the various logos. Perhaps there should be words added in front, "Follow us on ..."
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Anaemic commented
There is really no need to use social media links.
You can copy and paste the website address where you want to post it.
I think it is a good idea to move away from social media links for a privacy and security focused email service. -
Bhabba commented
Not all social media share buttons are automatically used for tracking. As far as I can tell, the ones ProtonMail uses on it's homepage and blog are completely self-hosted on protonmail.com and do not automatically contact the servers of the social media companies. This means Google/Facebook/Twitter can't track visitors unless they actually click on those buttons/links.
If you wanna check for yourself use for example the logger of the browser add-on "uBlock Origin". A sample screenshot of a ProtonMail blog post which shows the Wordpress share buttons don't phone home: http://imgur.com/a/xU6Ka
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Deklan commented
They can also be made in a way that doesn't allow tracking from the social networks.