Not so delicious?

[themadlurker]

Things that are annoying me at present: firefox wants me to update, the old delicious add-on won't work if I do, if I want to use the new add-on I have to agree to put up with whatever the new owners want to do with my bookmarks, and delicious has been logging me out more frequently than normal, which I assume has something to do with the fact that

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[themadlurker]

Yep, all your bookmarks will go fwoot. The new owners try to make it sound like you don't have a choice -

You will be required to transition your bookmarks to AVOS and to accept our terms of service and privacy policy.

- but actually you do, and the e-mail yahoo sent out about it basically says the info from old accounts will be gone -

What happens if you do not transfer your bookmarks

• Delicious in its current form will be available until approximately July 2011.
• After that, you will no longer be able to use your existing Delicious account and will not have access to your existing bookmarks or account information.

- which is annoying on other levels, because who knows how many recs lists/link archives will be lost because the original owner isn't updating anymore/lost their password/didn't notice/log in/back them up before the change over?

[sophinisba]

YOU WILL BE REQUIRED omg.

I will transfer mine but I figure most of the information that's been useful to fans will be lost and that makes me really sad.

[themadlurker]

YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO GIVE US ALL YOUR DATA. WE WILL THEN OWN ALL THE DATA AND WE WILL DO AS WE PLEASE WITH IT.

I think I may wait to transfer my bookmarks for a while. I'll back them up of course, but as for actually turning them over to the new delicious? We'll see how they behave after the changeover is complete...

[allothi]

I agree, that is mildly creepy, if not more than mildly. Makes me feel nervous and I don't have a delicious account.

(The non-nervous part of my brain would like to add: Deliciapocalypse 2: the end of the world just got tastier.)

[sophinisba]

Deliciapocalypse 2: the end of the world just got tastier.

*snorfle*

[themadlurker]

They're gonna be watching you! Even if you just search the site for X pairing, looking for fic. I haven't been this creeped out since this showed up on tumblr (real-time searches being displayed at google HQ).

(Ahahaha, <3 your brain. I would watch that movie, if it were a movie.)