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."

Comments

It is to laugh.

[geminidomino]

Epic Win for Irony.

Currently on the front page of Wired.Com

"WebMonkey:

Warning: This site may be sharing your data"

Re:Thought JavaScript clipboard was opt in?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or an ASCII art version of goatse.

Re:Thought JavaScript clipboard was opt in?

[lattyware]

'ASCII art version of goatse.' +4 Interesting
Only on slashdot.

Re:Snopes

[Lord Ender]

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!