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Why LJ sucks, reason number 962
Another big FAIL to add to the every growing list of Fails since 6A took over LJ.
Have you ever been to a blog which has those annoying graphic previews of a website when you hover over it? The ones that are about 300 pixels wide and half the time they get in the way of the link so you can't actually see them? Well 6A have gone into partnership with snap.com that does those, and they're going to be doing it in LJ. You can choose to disable it on your own LJ but you can't choose to disable it for all LJs you view, only your own. Which is only half the job of disabling it, really. Of course LJ want you to see previews of all the juicy sponsored links they're filling up the News community with.
Here's the convo alerting me to it (note they've not actually announced it at all even though it's live). And here's a Digg article on why Snap sucks.
What annoys me the most is every single Bad Thing on LJ over the past year, has something to do with advertising; either increasing the prominence of sponsored content, or reacting in fear of losing sponsors. Even the whole fandom strikethrough fuss was ultimately because they were afraid sponsors wouldn't touch them with a 10-ft bargepole if there was anything dodgy on anyone's LJ.
I deleted my personal LJ a while back (actually I deleted the content but left the account, so I could read/comment on friends), but left this one going because I wanted to keep participating in the![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif)
second_lifers community. Now, I'm not so sure I even want to do that any more, if all the links in it are going to be popup-enabled. I am this close .. to deleting my LJ altogether - not just deleting the content and not using it, but actually deleting the whole account - because I am now at the point where I really can't trust the company any more. What next? Tracking cookies? Spyware?
One day, in the not too distant future, LJ is going to be like Myspace. Only it will be a squeaky-clean, censored, full of ads but no content above a PG kind of Myspace. And me, I will be gone for good before that happens.
Another big FAIL to add to the every growing list of Fails since 6A took over LJ.
Have you ever been to a blog which has those annoying graphic previews of a website when you hover over it? The ones that are about 300 pixels wide and half the time they get in the way of the link so you can't actually see them? Well 6A have gone into partnership with snap.com that does those, and they're going to be doing it in LJ. You can choose to disable it on your own LJ but you can't choose to disable it for all LJs you view, only your own. Which is only half the job of disabling it, really. Of course LJ want you to see previews of all the juicy sponsored links they're filling up the News community with.
Here's the convo alerting me to it (note they've not actually announced it at all even though it's live). And here's a Digg article on why Snap sucks.
What annoys me the most is every single Bad Thing on LJ over the past year, has something to do with advertising; either increasing the prominence of sponsored content, or reacting in fear of losing sponsors. Even the whole fandom strikethrough fuss was ultimately because they were afraid sponsors wouldn't touch them with a 10-ft bargepole if there was anything dodgy on anyone's LJ.
I deleted my personal LJ a while back (actually I deleted the content but left the account, so I could read/comment on friends), but left this one going because I wanted to keep participating in the
second_lifers community. Now, I'm not so sure I even want to do that any more, if all the links in it are going to be popup-enabled. I am this close .. to deleting my LJ altogether - not just deleting the content and not using it, but actually deleting the whole account - because I am now at the point where I really can't trust the company any more. What next? Tracking cookies? Spyware?One day, in the not too distant future, LJ is going to be like Myspace. Only it will be a squeaky-clean, censored, full of ads but no content above a PG kind of Myspace. And me, I will be gone for good before that happens.