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Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste

Posted by timothy on from the peeking-at-your-poke dept.

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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  1. Re:Fiddler is helpful is monitoring a site... by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fiddler requires Windows and .NET so it really
    has little market as most Windows users have no clue
    as to what is going on and do not care anyway.

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  2. Re:How Tynt.com says to avoid being tracked... by Nakarti · · Score: 0, Troll

    This from their FAQ - Technical Topics (http://www1.tynt.com/faq-technical-topics):

    For Firefox users, we have found Adblock plus to work well, and Super Ad Blocker is effective for IE users.

    Good thing I'm using Ad Block Plus and NoScript while I wait, or they'd know I cut-n-pasted that...

    Good thing you're such a flagrant moron that we shouldn't have to worry about you reproducing.

  3. Re:use noscript! by JWSmythe · · Score: 0, Troll

        It's gone downhill since they outsourced the editor responsibilities to the cheapest bidder in India. This is what we get for 2 Indian Rupee's a week. I'm fairly pleased most of the words even show up. :)

        The way the US economy is going, I may as well start heading that way. Anyone know a cheap way to get to India from the US? 2 Rupee's is more than the $0 a lot of us are making. Yea! Outsourcing!

       

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  4. Re:use noscript! by JWSmythe · · Score: 0, Troll

        I never claimed I was editing for the front page, and they aren't paying me for it.

        But' If' It' Would' Make' You' Happy' Gramma' Nazzi', Here's Some' Apostrophes' For' You'.

        I know. I know. Don't feel the trolls.

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