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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.
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.