[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]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