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.
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.
mllesatine
One could think that a partnership like the one with snap.com is newsworthy, no?
das_dingsi
Apparently, it's only enabled by default for new accounts.
scorpio
aristoboule
Lawdy, could they get any worse?
teh_kittykat
tephra
teh_kittykat
tephra
amenosakura
jchaos
nosselinfea
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?
keieeeye
keieeeye
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.
ex_zc478
I don't often hate, but I'm working up an extreme dislike for LJ that is right at that tipping point.
elfwreck
ex_zc478
elfwreck
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.)
ex_zc478
pouncer
caersidi
franzi1981
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.
scorpio
(Anonymous)
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.