tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post7273467240178804846..comments2023-10-18T09:35:55.767+02:00Comments on LUDWIG'S ROHRSTOCK-PALAST: Respecting Reader PrivacyLudwighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975294529532823252noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-61534903233755789952010-07-18T12:14:58.926+02:002010-07-18T12:14:58.926+02:00@ Richard: Thanks, again, for removing the live tr...@ Richard: Thanks, again, for removing the live traffic feed and for taking this whole discussion in the spirit I intended it - not as a personal attack or as a knock on your blog, which I think is excellent, but simply as a raising of awareness about a topic which I consider very important.<br /><br />You are right that the emphasis by people like Kaelah, Indy and me on privacy protection can seem a bit over the top at first sight, even "paranoid". I might have said much the same thing a few years ago. But I have grown much more sensitive about the topic since then, and nowadays I think that, unfortunately, there are very good reasons for being a little paranoid.<br /><br />Governments, employers, corporations keen on advertising, and your friendly neighbourhood hacker are doing enough as it is to create the perfectly "transparent" web surfer. Let's not make it any easier for them than we have to.<br /><br />@ Anonymous; You are of course right in pointing out that we cannot rely on all the blog owners and webmasters to be conscious of the topic and protect our privacy for us. Ultimnately, as internet surfers, we are responsible for ourselves (in that regard, thank you for the Feedjit workarounds you posted).<br /><br />Still, I think that raising awareness among fellow spanking bloggers is a good idea, obviously.Ludwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14975294529532823252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-38088144367580937222010-06-15T20:04:43.862+02:002010-06-15T20:04:43.862+02:00Ludwig/Kaelah,
My initial reaction was a little b...Ludwig/Kaelah,<br /><br />My initial reaction was a little bit of shock to be honest with you, especially being that I had used the feedjit widget for 3 years on my sites.<br /><br />Now I don't think the use of it was thoughtless, rather than naivety on my part. When I first started to use it I actually thought it would be a good idea, and even a fun little tool for my readers to see just exactly where everyone was coming from. As time went on however I found the tool to be an excellent idea to track where my visitors were going.<br /><br />The only purpose for that was due to the simple fact that I do indeed market websites for additional revenue. When I would use a post specifically for marketing reasons, I used the tool to see whether or not I was directing my visitors to the targets I was intending them to go.<br /><br />Of course there are many tools for achieving this anyway, the feedjit one just seemed the simplest because it was right there and easily accessible. Not one time did I think that it was potentially compromising the privacy of my readers. I guess a part of that was some of the sharing of private information that I was already aware of, the use of feedjit seemed to pale in comparison.<br /><br />Coincidentally, and just slightly off topic, but so far online I have seen people share the names, phone numbers, personal court cases and alleged personal charges of third parties. This whole practice of sharing even the remotest detail of another's personal information just sickens me, especially in our community. What is worse is that some of this information has been released by producers of videos. Long ago I vowed that should I ever witness anyone divulge the personal information of another, then I will never work with that person under any circumstance. Not through fear of my own personal information being divulged, but simply based on principal. <br /><br />Anyway, once I read that some readers of mine felt that the use of the widget in question compromised their privacy, I of course was very happy to remove the program. Any information that I need for marketing purposes is easily available to me through my stats program, so if I need to look something up I need go no further than there.<br /><br />Now on my site I did direct people to this post, so hopefully it will make more blog owners aware of what may be perceived by some of their readers as a breach of their privacy. Hopefully other bloggers will follow suit and also remove the widget. After all, most of them took my lead by adding it in the first place ;-)<br /><br />Rich.Richard Windsorhttp://richardwindsor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-8016268744816826092010-06-15T15:21:37.512+02:002010-06-15T15:21:37.512+02:00Thanks for the good topic. But I think the answer ...Thanks for the good topic. But I think the answer is not to hope for nice blog owners but to defend oneself once and forever. Here are two ways to do it.<br /><br />1. To block (only) Feedjit visits, get the Firefox Extension called Adblock Plus (ABP), and manually add to "Preferences" these two lines:<br /><br />*feedjit.com/serve/*<br />*feedjit.com/pg/fj/*<br /><br />After that, as long as you have ABP enabled, any site using Feedjit won't see you at ALL anymore.<br /><br />2. To get rid of all trackers please check here:<br />http://www.geekdrop.com/content/how-to-block-trackers<br /><br />Hope that helps.<br /><br />SpankfunAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-40912183539517957872010-06-15T03:04:56.364+02:002010-06-15T03:04:56.364+02:00Good observation, Ludwig and Kaelah. We'll all...Good observation, Ludwig and Kaelah. We'll all be more private now that you've raised awareness of this potential security glitch in the spanking-internet operating systemKarl Friedrich Gausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01229774469243094801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-73743805439575729662010-06-14T19:36:15.723+02:002010-06-14T19:36:15.723+02:00@ Richard:
Thanks a lot for hiding the Live Traff...@ Richard:<br /><br />Thanks a lot for hiding the Live Traffic Feed on your blogs! I wasn’t aware of some bloggers using such an add-on until a few days ago when I discovered Feedjit on a spanking blog for the very first time. That made me take a closer look on the other blogs I frequently visit, among them the Spanking Universe, and I realised that the blog I had discovered first wasn’t the only one using Feedjit.<br /><br />I spent some time trying different ways of hiding from Feedjit, but none of them led to a satisfactory result. So I informed Ludwig about my discovery and told him to be careful about Live Traffic Feeds. And I decided to reduce my visits to blogs with a visible Live Traffic Feed to a minimum. The fact that you’ve hidden Feedjit on your blogs makes life much easier for me, because it means I can use the spanking updates page at the Spanking Universe regularly again to see what is going on in the world of spanking blogs! :-)Kaelahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108718924415630397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-58709172904054966292010-06-14T14:38:23.962+02:002010-06-14T14:38:23.962+02:00Richard, FWIW, I simply do not read blogs with Fe...Richard, FWIW, I simply do not read blogs with Feedjit on them, no matter how good they are. I've actually been meaning to write you to ask you to remove it from Spanking Universe, but I never got around to it. I have seen this issue arise in a discussion on Bonnie's My Bottom Smarts, and I was not alone in that view. <br /><br />Thanks for removing it!<br /><br />Indyindyhttp://innocentindy.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-37832450438526409842010-06-14T13:14:31.894+02:002010-06-14T13:14:31.894+02:00Ludwig,
I want to respond in full but I have to g...Ludwig,<br /><br />I want to respond in full but I have to get ready for work, lol, so it will still have to wait. Real quick though, when I first got your email the first thoughts that went through my mind were thoughts of conspiracy theorists and a certain level of paranoia. Even to a point where I had my hands extended saying to myself "Que?"<br /><br />Now with that said, when I read your post last night you will see that there is a one hour break between my replies. The reason for that was that I put "Feedjit privacy" into Google and indeed I found numerous threads on the subject. Now even though I still think that such thoughts are a little extreme, I read enough to realize that there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with such a program.<br /><br />I guess a part of my reasoning prior to that had been that I had actually used this program for over 3 years now, and not a single word had been mentioned to me by anyone. You have to bear in mind that in those 3 years I have had something like a million visitors with not one comment about the feedjit program.<br /><br />Regardless though, I pride myself on my honesty and integrity, and if, as I saw, it is a problem for enough people in many various sources, then my reasons for using it are pretty insignificant when compared to someone's privacy issues.<br /><br />Richard Windsor.Richard Windsorhttp://richardwindsor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-68890571258038331612010-06-14T12:34:22.427+02:002010-06-14T12:34:22.427+02:00Ludwig: I suspect that most of the bloggers who us...Ludwig: I suspect that most of the bloggers who use the live feedjit widget live in large metropolitan areas with a reasonable degree of anonymity and have simply not considered that broadcasting the location of their readers could be problematic. Hopefully this post will raise awareness.<br /><br />Richard: Thanks!Indyhttp://innocentindy.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-62925359711643784672010-06-14T10:55:44.366+02:002010-06-14T10:55:44.366+02:00@ Richard: Rest assured, it was not my intention t...@ Richard: Rest assured, it was not my intention to single you (or anyone else) out as a culprit. I don't believe that any one spanking blogger is to blame for the rise of Live Traffic Feeds in our corner of the web. They are simply one of those fashions that become popular one day.<br /><br />If you search around the web a bit, you will find that there are numerous discussions about Live Traffic Feeds in the "vanilla" blogosphere as well. They are a controversial topic. Many people don't mind them, but there are also quite a few (myself included, obviously) who don't like them because of the issue of privacy.<br /><br />Like I said, I think that we as spanking bloggers should be especially sensitive to things like this. So, I would like to thank you sincerely for making a good example and removing the public Live Traffic Feeds from your sites.Ludwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14975294529532823252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-7123306021066757572010-06-14T07:48:30.426+02:002010-06-14T07:48:30.426+02:00While I will still reply at length with my thought...While I will still reply at length with my thoughts to your post, you will see that the live feedjit widget is no longer visible on any of my sites. It is still running in the background so that I can continue to use it for the purposes that I require, but it is no longer visible to my readers.Richard Windsorhttp://richardwindsor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616982860776135414.post-52852894933070942262010-06-14T06:35:46.686+02:002010-06-14T06:35:46.686+02:00Ludwig,
I will try to respond to your email tomor...Ludwig,<br /><br />I will try to respond to your email tomorrow. Now while I don't have much time to digest your thoughts right now as I am about to crash, thanks to the Universe I am happy to have found your post :-) <br /><br />Real quick in relation to your post here, you probably need not look any further than my blog as the source of your complaints. I believe that I was the first one to add this widget three years ago, and most of the bloggers that you see with this widget I believe grabbed the idea from my sites.<br /><br />That said, I will respond in kind to your email and share with you my thoughts on the subject.Richard Windsorhttp://richardwindsor.comnoreply@blogger.com