Social buttons playing hide-and-seek on Dictionary.com

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When you check up a word in this dictionary (say, http://dictionary.reference.com/brows... ), the buttons for Facebook Social Plugins and Google +1 show up in spite of not being whitelisted:

Only after you hover the pointer over them, without clicking, they get detected and removed by Ghostery:

I'm not sure if it's relevant: in this case, AdBlock+ (all four default lists loaded) behaves exactly the same way.

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Pete (Senior Communications Manager) January 18, 2014 15:51

Hi Peadar,

Thanks for reaching out.

This may be due to the way they are implemented on the page.

I'll send this over for review.

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Hi Peadar, Thanks for reaching out. This may be due to the way they are implemented on the page. I'll send this over for review.

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Eric P. Scott January 18, 2014 18:47
The images you see are first party, and they're just placeholders. This site has implemented its own version of Click-to-Play (except it's activated by mouseover rather than click). This enhances privacy, decreases page loading time, and minimizes network usage for everyone — regardless of which browser they're using, or what addons or extensions they have installed (great for public libraries, corporate environments, etc. where users may not have a choice). Kudos!

Ghostery handles attempts to load the "real" tracking elements as it normally would; whether or not they're blocked is entirely up to you.

Related:
https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/...
https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/...

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Below: Excerpt of a sprite sheet containing fake social button images.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_%...
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The images you see are first party, and they're just placeholders. This site has implemented its own version of Click-to-Play (except it's activated by mouseover rather than click). This enhances privacy, decreases page loading time, and minimizes network usage for everyone — regardless of which browser they're using, or what addons or extensions they have installed (great for public libraries, corporate environments, etc. where users may not have a choice). Kudos! Ghostery handles attempts to load the "real" tracking elements as it normally would; whether or not they're blocked is entirely up to you. Related: https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/topics/with_ghostery_2_click_social_media_buttons_not_usable https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/topics/vale-qz3b1 — — — — — — — Below: Excerpt of a sprite sheet containing fake social button images. <a href="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1011302/sprites.png"><img src="https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1011302/sprites_inline.png" width="490" height="368" alt="[screenshot]" /></a> <ul><li>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_%28computer_graphics%29#Sprites_by_CSS</li></ul>

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