Tynt bietet Websitebetreibern die Möglichkeit, Copy&Paste zu tracken und die eigenen Nutzer zu nerven. John Gruber:
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.
Eigenartigerweise setzen mittlerweile Techbusinessblogs wie TechCrunch und BusinessInsider den Dienst ein.
… WeiterlesenI presume Tynt has plans to eventually insert ads into copied text, but as far as I’ve seen, they aren’t doing so yet. I have no idea what TechCrunch or The New Yorker think they’re getting out of this service. They’re burning some measure of goodwill from their readers in exchange for URL tracking analytics from Tynt identifiers that most people, I bet, delete as soon as they see them after pasting. And even if it does work well — if, in fact, a significant number of people leave the tracking URLs from Tynt in place after they paste — the idea of websites tracking what users copy from their pages is creepy.