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."

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Re:If its just JS break it.

[QuoteMstr]

Don't like it? Metamoderate.

You do not own wired's website

[shish]

Cool, and utterly annoying, and how do I make that stop? ... And Tynt provides no opt outs.

The opt out process is very simple -- if you don't want to view wired's website under wired's conditions, then don't visit their website. Having an internet connection does not automatically entitle you to free access to everything you want on your own terms... (Yes, doing stuff like this might turn their readers away, but that's their choice, not yours)