Meta to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites ⇥ developers.facebook.com

Thuan Le and Jennifer Lin, of Meta:

As Meta’s developer platform continues to evolve, we’re making strategic decisions to focus on tools and features that deliver the most value to developers and businesses. Today, we’re announcing that two Facebook Social Plugins – the Facebook Like button and the Facebook Comment button – will be discontinued on February 10, 2026.

After then, Meta says, these buttons will display as a 0 × 0 box. As far as I can tell, the Facebook SDK will continue to run in the background doing all sorts privacy-hostile things. The best time to remove that JavaScript package from your website or app was, like, at least ten years ago; the next best time is right now.