The "Evercookies" are one of the many advantages of turning "Click to Play" on for all browser extensions (but most notably flash and java).
Both Internet Explorer and Chrome have supported "Click to play" natively since forever. Only Firefox shamefully doesn't.
Unlike many other security measures it is pretty intuitive. Just click on the applets you wish to load or unblock them like a pop-up blocker from the URL bar.
In Chrome you can also whitelist entire domains like this:
[*.]youtube.com
However be careful not to go too whitelist crazy, as I think this article makes clear a lot of those "Share this" applets are tracking you and many otherwise innocent sites host them.
As with most user-friendly browser innovations, it was Opera that did it first. I was using it as early as 2001 for its ability to easily turn off annoying Flash content unless specifically requested.
It wasn't quite as simple as click-to-play or controllable per site until a few versions later; it was an application-wide toggle to enable plugins or not, but always very easy to use just one click away on the right-click quick preference menu.
Both Internet Explorer and Chrome have supported "Click to play" natively since forever. Only Firefox shamefully doesn't.
Unlike many other security measures it is pretty intuitive. Just click on the applets you wish to load or unblock them like a pop-up blocker from the URL bar.
In Chrome you can also whitelist entire domains like this:
[*.]youtube.com
However be careful not to go too whitelist crazy, as I think this article makes clear a lot of those "Share this" applets are tracking you and many otherwise innocent sites host them.