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Facebook like button is asking to confirm the action

To begin with, I've already read the following topics:

  • Facebook Like without Confirm?
  • Facebook Like button shows the "Confirm" link, but still cannot Like after confirming

Including this topic:

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8940749/facebook-likeconfirm-button

There are at least 25 apps hosted under dev.anuary.com host, sub domain of anuary.com. Neither of them ask for "like" action to be confirmed.

Worth mentioning, is that there is another website ( http://sinonimai.lt ) hosted on the same host, that had a fan base of 10 000+ people and was recently disabled by Facebook. I didn't manage to contact Facebook regarding either of the issues, therefore I simply took off the like-box from the latter website. Hopefully, temporarily.

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The most annoying of all, is that even if you confirm the "like" action, "like" doesn't get submitted. I've tried on multiple friend accounts, different browsers (possible bug to report?).

I've ignored it for over a month. But it doesn't go away.


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There are no hidden overlays, no bouding elements or anything that'd be considered unusual placement of the "like" button element. The website and the button itself has been placed very recently. The open-graph tags are in place and changing app ID doesn't change the behavior.

<meta property="og:title" content="Anuary"/> <meta property="og:type" content="company"/>  <meta property="og:image" content="http://anuary.com/public/images/og-anuary-logo.jpg"/> <meta property="og:url" content="http://anuary.com"/> <meta property="fb:app_id" content="128740590570428"/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Anuary"/> <meta property="og:description" content="Anuary is a company of accomplished developers and social media experts. We design engaging and innovative social media campaigns, for web and mobile, that are meant to interact with your targeted audience, through applications, websites, competitions and participation events. The objective being to spread the word about the product and increase loyalty to the advertised brand."/> 

However, the page content is loaded dynamically. What Facebook parser sees is pretty much an empty page.

Can this be an issue?

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Gajus Avatar asked Jan 31 '12 17:01

Gajus


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2 Answers

Unfortunately, I think you are running into a recent Facebook change/design decision. Here are a couple bug reports discussing this issue:

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/274568892605777

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/169544703153617

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Jackson Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 22:09

Jackson


Use the Facebook Debug tool to see what content is on the page. http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

It shows you what Facebook sees when it scrapes the page. It could help in identifying what the underlying issue is.

With regards to liking / unliking content multiple times, Facebook has some automatic features that prevent likes from showing up on Facebook, or indeed showing the 'Confirm' link you are seeing. This is mainly to combat click-jacking as this is a common problem with the Like button.

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Niraj Shah Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 22:09

Niraj Shah