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So, first there was the unannounced removal of Basic journals. The big kerfuffle over this was not that they removed them (even though when SixApart bought LJ they specifically said they wouldn't), but about the fact that it wasn't mentioned. The same day they got rid of them was the same day SA did the big '100 days' post in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news, yet not a word about losing Basic accounts was mentioned.
They have since apologized...sort of . I think. Someone posted a big 'wow, you guys are loud' post innews but didn't actually say anything useful. Or, you know, at all.
Next, it was the discovery that the popular interests page was being censored for 'hot topic' words like sex, boys, bondage and fanfiction. And depression, which is right up there with fanfiction for the stupid interests to censor.
This has since been fixed, mostly. I think.
The latest one - LJ is grabbing personal data on you through the Plus accounts.Go here and see how it's LJ's very own version of BEACON, and we've all been affected.
ETA: The post in question has gone to friends only (of which I am not one). I can try and remember what command to use in the admin console to limit the damage, but you might be better off googling it.
From the post:
The post details how you can limit the information shown, but that's about it. There's nothing you can do about it, unless you defriend every Plus account and never visit any in the future. Though, now that they've gotten rid of Basic accounts, that's going to be harder and harder to do.
Personally, I'm annoyed by all this, though it's mostly the lack of communication (which they still don't comprehend, even after all the events of last year) and the data they collect on me. Plus accounts have never bothered me, but that's because I have Ad Blocker Plus and NoScript, which hides ads before I even realize they're there. I honestly don't know what an LJ with advertising looks like, and I'm glad.
I'm also considering not friending any one who has a Plus account, and making a special flist filter that doesn't have any of them, either. I don't know if maybe that's going too far, but tough. I don't want Google knowing what sites I search for, and I don't want LJ to know my birthday or where I was born. I'm very careful about what personal information I make public, and the only reason I did that on LJ was because I understood that the only people who would use that data was either LJ - for internal statistics(maybe) - and people on my flist or people who want to join my flist.
In no way, shape or form did I agree to having it sit on some advertising server just waiting for a marketing monkey to use it to tell me what I want to buy next.
news, yet not a word about losing Basic accounts was mentioned.They have since apologized...sort of . I think. Someone posted a big 'wow, you guys are loud' post in
news but didn't actually say anything useful. Or, you know, at all.Next, it was the discovery that the popular interests page was being censored for 'hot topic' words like sex, boys, bondage and fanfiction. And depression, which is right up there with fanfiction for the stupid interests to censor.
This has since been fixed, mostly. I think.
The latest one - LJ is grabbing personal data on you through the Plus accounts.
ETA: The post in question has gone to friends only (of which I am not one). I can try and remember what command to use in the admin console to limit the damage, but you might be better off googling it.
From the post:
...anytime you visit an LJ page with ads on it, your gender, birth date, country, 10 most popular interests and the content of your first public post are sent to an ad-targeting server. If none of those things are available, the server starts scanning the public content of your journal. You don't even have to have a Plus account for this to happen; if you've ever visited an LJ page with ads on it, or even have someone with a Plus account on your f-list, they've done this to you already.
The post details how you can limit the information shown, but that's about it. There's nothing you can do about it, unless you defriend every Plus account and never visit any in the future. Though, now that they've gotten rid of Basic accounts, that's going to be harder and harder to do.
Personally, I'm annoyed by all this, though it's mostly the lack of communication (which they still don't comprehend, even after all the events of last year) and the data they collect on me. Plus accounts have never bothered me, but that's because I have Ad Blocker Plus and NoScript, which hides ads before I even realize they're there. I honestly don't know what an LJ with advertising looks like, and I'm glad.
I'm also considering not friending any one who has a Plus account, and making a special flist filter that doesn't have any of them, either. I don't know if maybe that's going too far, but tough. I don't want Google knowing what sites I search for, and I don't want LJ to know my birthday or where I was born. I'm very careful about what personal information I make public, and the only reason I did that on LJ was because I understood that the only people who would use that data was either LJ - for internal statistics(maybe) - and people on my flist or people who want to join my flist.
In no way, shape or form did I agree to having it sit on some advertising server just waiting for a marketing monkey to use it to tell me what I want to buy next.
