Thankfully, we have Frictionless Chrome extension developed by Google’s ex-software engineer Brian Kennish. This extension will let you view the shared article page directly without installing any app. Effectively it will bypass any of the loops presented by Facebook and take you to the desired article. Since it is a relatively new extension, it might not work with all news sources. However I have found it to work with almost all major news sources such as Washington Post, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, Times of India and NDTV. Interestingly, the ex-Google employee has another Chrome extension ‘Facebook Disconnect’, which blocks all your data to flow to Facebook servers while visiting other different sites. It also hides like boxes and buttons for easy viewing of the web site. Install Frictionless from here if you are annoyed by those dialog boxes and are more concerned about your privacy.
