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  Public Ticket #3006082
Social Sahre / GDPR
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  •  5
    joshivince started the conversation
    March 20, 2022 at 9:42am

    Hi all. Thanks for this nice Wordpress Plugin I love it.

    Can you please give us the possibility to turn some of the social shares off? For example I want to deactivate the "Viber" social share. AFAIK I can only turn off the whole share bar and not a single one. Background for this request: It is hard to get Data Security (Privacy Policy) 100 % compliant to law with "WhatsApp" and "Viber" (at least in Europe) - occuring GDPR problems.

    Thanks for your reply in advance, Vincent

  •  783
    Zhivko replied
    March 20, 2022 at 1:28pm

    Hi,

    Open your theme or child-theme functions.php file and insert following filter:

    add_filter('stec-share-links', function($share_links) {
    $remove = [
        'viber',
        'whatsapp'
    ];
    
    foreach($remove as $icon) {
        if (isset($share_links[$icon])) {
            unset($share_links[$icon]);
        }
    }
    return $share_links;
});

    Stachethemes Developer

  •  5
    joshivince replied
    March 20, 2022 at 2:05pm

    WOW! Thanks a lot it works fine.

    One question about that: Is just the icon removed and also its functionality behind? I ask because if the viber script is still loaded and full with its functionality it is still a violation of GDPR regulation.

    Thanks again.

    Regards from Germany,
    Vincent

  •  783
    Zhivko replied
    March 21, 2022 at 11:31am

    Don't worry there are no viber or messenger scripts there. 

    The share links are plain urls and don't use scripts.

    Stachethemes Developer

  •  5
    joshivince replied
    March 21, 2022 at 1:57pm

    Thank you a lot. Then you can close this incident.

    I'm happy with it!