Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

@snipeyhead Tynt, "It’s a bunch of user-hostile SEO bullshit." http://bit.ly/9dsFbP - If Apture avoids stories like this, should do ok. – Ben Shive (BenSS) http://twitter.com/BenSS/statuses/17430682535

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text

I found Wired Science doing this bullshit just now, when saving a bookmark to an article there. Very disappointing, guys.

Tynt is a service that automatically forces a link reference into your clipboard when you copy text from web sites using them. Worth blocking.

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text.

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