Overview
- The change affects only third-party website embeds, and reactions on Facebook itself are not being removed.
- Remaining embeds will gracefully degrade to a 0x0 invisible element so pages continue to function without errors.
- Developers and site administrators do not need to take immediate action, though Meta recommends removing the old code over time for cleaner performance.
- These plugins date to the 2009–2010 Open Graph era that promoted social traffic across the web, but usage has declined in recent years.
- Coverage notes uncertainty about the fate of some other legacy modules, including certain share widgets, with clarification from Meta still sought.