Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy

http://www.tynt.com/tynts-chief-operating-officer-talks-about-privacy/

by domino • 16 years ago

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timdoug• 16 years ago

timdoug offers one-line opt-out (in /etc/hosts):

  127.0.0.1       tcr.tynt.com

...and this is cross-browser and doesn't disappear when I clear my cookies.

jamesbritt3• 16 years ago

BTW, are there any advantages to either that or

    0.0.0.0 tcr.tynt.com


?

jonursenbach• 16 years ago

No.

bonsaitree2• 16 years ago

No. They're both "reserved" loop-back addresses, but 127.0.0.1 has more cultural/conventional weight for this explicit purpose and also avoids any possible semantic overloads with dotted-quad zero and/or null values.

bonsaitree2• 16 years ago

Indeed. Tynt is an absolute abomination going against both basic clipboard usability and Web content mores.

I will forevermore pronounce Tynt as taint.

aresant• 16 years ago

From a PR review I thought it was clear messaging - understanding but not apologetic and got me to read their case study - well played tynt, well played

spicyj• 16 years ago

The opt-out page has been there for weeks; it's nothing new.

pierrefar• 16 years ago

Careful with this line:

iVillage who have realized 800,000 new visits thanks to Tynt’s link-back service

No it's not visits: the linked case study says 800k links. Mind you, that's also very good (from an SEO perspective), but it is a very important detail to clarify.

logic2• 16 years ago

"WARNING! Tynt Blocker has detected Tynt.com's tracer script in use on this site."

I can't recommend this Chrome extension enough. :)

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/achmnghbfplhfomh...

chrisbolt• 16 years ago

Why the need to alert you? To me, that seems just as annoying as Tynt.

logic2• 16 years ago

Late reply: yes, it's annoying, but thankfully not many folks seem to have rolled this out. You receive a single popup for a given domain, confirming that you want to block tynt for that site; the page is then reloaded, sans tynt.

There's another extension based on Tynt Blocker (named, creatively, Tynt Blocker 2) that doesn't ask for confirmation first:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ajefkgbbbikgjalb...

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