Facebook and Twitter Connect, Pingbacks

[news]

We've got some exciting updates this week, so sit tight and we'll get started. Of course, news would not be complete without a special gift from Frank. It appears that he neglected to celebrate birthdays this month. So, in the spirit of better late than never, please rip a zippy yippee if you were born in August, and Frank'll send you a ginger

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[frigg]

I am sorry, but what were you thinking?

The Facebook and Twitter connects are a huge breach of privacy.

A friend did some testing and it turns out that even if I disable the feature, any LJ friend who has not can still repost their comment to my locked entry to their Facebook and Twitter - and even if the public cannot see the entire thread or the original post, then it is still a link to my locked blog post, revealing my LJ presense to people I'd prefer know nothing about it - and often content of the original post can be derived from a comment.

Internet anonymity just went straight out the window.

[honoria]

Dear g-d. There are people I am afraid will find me on facebook, etc. I am pseudonymous for my own physical safety.
Thank you for this post--I'm off to BEG my flist not to crosspost.

[farmleaf]

EXACTLY THIS!

[pandorasblog]

Thank you for highlighting this, and thanks to the person on my flist who linked to your comment. I'd like to add my voice to those saying that this is a TERRIBLE idea and that LJ has not made clear enough the fact that it has now left people unable to control the privacy of their own content.

[reddheart]

Until this is fixed, I question as to whether I will renew my paid status for this year when my renewal comes in November.

I encourage anyone who is concerned about this and is paying for the service, or paying for userpics, etc, or even doing the sponsored ads aspect of it, to think twice about providing any more money to LJ until this has been fully addressed and resolved.

I've put no small amount of paid-account status and such into LJ over the years. I could continue to do so. However, I have no intention to put money into any company that does not test things that could be a privacy risk to assure this is not happening.

I will be encouraging my friendslist to reconsider their subscriptions/renewals/etc as well.

[againstathorn]

As a paid member for the last two years I second this as well.

[tiferet]

I stopped paying them when they fired Tupshin, but I just want to remind Sponsored users that AdBlock exists :)

[rheasilvia]

Wow.

Lately I've been wondering if I should buy some paid time again, since it's been a while since LJ last fucked up and they might have learned.

...

Yeah. Not so much.