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Meta to Retire Facebook’s External Like and Comment Plugins on Feb. 10, 2026

The company says the decade-old widgets have fallen out of use as it streamlines developer tools.

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.