[info]ardath_rekha in [info]07refugees

LJ's latest outrage: Snap.com

Guys, you'd better check this out. LJ has found a new way to spam our accounts. Now, when people hover over a link on your journal -- say, for instance, your "I've moved to InsaneJournal!" link -- LJ is having Snap.com generate a pop-up image to suck up bandwidth and add spyware to people's computers and God knows what else.

I really wasn't looking forward to going through all of my inactive accounts to deactivate that crap, but now I'm going to have to. Any chance LJ ever had of wooing me back? Just got totally flushed. This is the most obnoxious thing yet!

Here's the discussion that alerted me.
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Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]mllesatine

It wasn't enabled in my viewing options.

One could think that a partnership like the one with snap.com is newsworthy, no?
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 05:28 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]das_dingsi

It wasn't enabled in my viewing options.

Apparently, it's only enabled by default for new accounts.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 05:36 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]scorpio

best.icon.ever. XD
Posted on Sep. 26th, 2007 10:13 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]aristoboule

Failaroni, the SixApart "treat"!

Lawdy, could they get any worse?
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 06:09 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]teh_kittykat

Christ on a tapdancing pogo stick made of crackers.. It's like a fail limbo!
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 07:13 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]tephra

I just had to icon the fail limbo bit, but it's a bit... adult (though censored) so I'm going to be chicken and text link it. It's here.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:56 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]teh_kittykat

That was a thing of beauty. :3
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 12:54 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]tephra

Free for the snagging for anyone with the proper amount of brazen to use it. :D
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 01:27 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]lucario

Great! Now I can start making a connection between 6A and them being the new Cybernetic Anti-Christ! xD Complete with spyware-adding faggotry.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 07:17 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]jchaos

It's like they WANT to be the black sheep of the internet...
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 07:57 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]nosselinfea

It seems that the default is that snap is disabled. For once this is a feature you have to opt IN to not opt OUT of.

But what's the bet that the News community will have it enabled for all of those sponsored links that paid users aren't meant to see?
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 09:04 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]keieeeye

Apparently it's disabled for older accounts and enabled if you make a new one. lolaroni.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:08 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]keieeeye

HAHAHAHA.

I'm lolling like mad. It's like a trainwreck that just keeps piling up and piling up coz they don't clear the tracks but they don't cancel the coming trains either. BRILLIANT.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:02 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]xavienne

I'm so tempted to go buy a printer cartridge and do printouts of all my LJ entries, then delete the whole thing.
I don't often hate, but I'm working up an extreme dislike for LJ that is right at that tipping point.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:06 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]elfwreck

You can go to LJBook.com and convert your whole archive to a PDF, and then delete it if you want.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:42 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]xavienne

Thanks for the help! Doing that now.
Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 11:56 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]elfwreck

There's also LJ-Archive (which I can't remember the website for, but googling would turn it up, and there are tutorials on various people's journals) that lets you transfer your LJ posts to another journal service.

It doesn't carry over comments or icons, and custom friendsgroups can get a bit weird, but it'll at least let you move the content over. (Dunno if you knew about that one.)
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 12:02 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]xavienne

Well, I got three of my five years on LJ copied over -- note for future users, you can only have 2 attempts at converting your journal for free -- then they ask for a donation. That'll teach me for not reading the FAQ first.
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 12:58 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pouncer

If you want to save your comments to your hard drive, this post explains how. And it also mentions a utility for transferring posts (no comments or music/mood/location info, but better than nothing).
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 03:19 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]caersidi

LJSEc is quite good for transferring over old entries from LJ to IJ or other site and as I think you've discovered LJArchive for downloading to your computer including comments and userpics.
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 07:45 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]franzi1981

While I'm quite unhappy with the Snap thing, just one thing: It's not going to download frigging spyware to your computer! Stop with the paranoia.
Posted on Sep. 26th, 2007 05:31 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]vincent_z

Again - yes, it cannot automatically download spyware onto your computer.
But the overall procedure to avoid tricks like this is turn off JavaScript / ActiveX in your web browser, especially when you visit Live Journal.
It makes sense to disable it as much as possible wherever you surf. A bunch of stealthy tricks cannot be executed if you have it disabled.

Posted on Sep. 26th, 2007 07:32 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]scorpio

i was under the impression that this was only for sponsored accounts :/
Posted on Sep. 26th, 2007 10:12 pm (UTC) | | Reply

(Anonymous)

Wow Guy/Girl, I know this post is old, and its odd to comment on it but, it doesn't and can't add spyware to your computer, thats just not how it works.

Yeah its annoying, but it can also be helpful, like when your trying to avoid being rick rolled or something.

And the bandwidth usage is at its worst, negligible.
Posted on Feb. 27th, 2009 01:55 pm (UTC) | | Reply