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Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste
jerryasher writes "In recent weeks I've noticed that when I copy and paste text from Wired and other websites, the pasted text has had the URL of the original website appended to it. Cool, and utterly annoying, and how do I make that stop? Tynt Insight is a piece of Javascript that sends what you copy to Tynt's webservers and adds the backlinks. Tynt calls that a service for the site owner, many people call that a privacy invasion. Worse, there are some reports that it sends not just what you copy, but everything you select. And Tynt provides no opt outs. Not cookie-based, not IP-based, but stop-it-you-creeps-angry-phone-call-based. It ain't a pure useful service, and it ain't a pure privacy invasion. But I sure wish they'd go away or have had the decency never to start up in the first place. I block it on Firefox with Ghostery."
Epic Win for Irony.
Currently on the front page of Wired.Com
"WebMonkey:
Warning: This site may be sharing your data"
In that case I hope they have enough server space.
Or an ASCII art version of goatse.
Noscript FTW.
'ASCII art version of goatse.' +4 Interesting
Only on slashdot.
-- Lattyware (www.lattyware.co.uk)
Hey boys! This feller here is calling himself "IT Ninja" but he doesn't know the difference between java and javascript! I say we run him outa slashdot!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Maybe random passages snarfed from the alt.sex.stories archives... fuck up their demographics, but at least give them something to read!
"Stop it, you creeps," angry phone call-based.
But yeah, the editors and most of the submitters not knowed the English.
"Stop it you!" creeps angry phone. (call-based)
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Pride and Prejudice? You're nice. I was thinking something along the lines of the 'first post' and CmdrTaco spam.
Don't like it? Metamoderate.
It is impossible to metamoderate without javascript.
The irony of that requirement is particularly stark given the context of this slashdot article.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Moderating funny posts interesting (or informative, or insightful) can often be quite funny. When moderating, I’ve been known to do it just for comic effect.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Wow, you're a real arrogant dickbag, aren't you? The next time you see an article on the internet about crappy egotistical IT folk, take a minute to walk down to the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."