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The Ghostery plugin can handle all this stuff easily.

Brian Kennish's disconnect extension/plugin for FF, Chrome, and Safari (available at http://disconnect.me/) very neatly does this for all of the major social networks.

Note: It doesn't work on Chrome, since Chrom(e|ium) is not capable of properly blocking requests. Ghostery also does the same but has a much (500+) larger blacklist of trackers.

I don't believe that has been true for a long time now.

I have disconnect installed, and, looking at the source, it checks a resource's URL on a beforeload event, and cancels the load if the domain has a match on the blacklist. Where is the problem?

I'm not sure about the internals of Chromium because i never use it and I'm not involved in the development of it, but from what i remember using beforeload is a hack that has a % chance of actually working per page load.

Proper resource blocking support is in development last time i checked, but it isn't done yet, which is why Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, etc aren't available/don't work on chrome.

Of course, Ghostery will still give you a list of trackers, but it won't always succeed in blocking all of them.

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