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Stick a pin in it: Pinterest placing ads for itself via Chrome plugin
- jeffehobbs 11y agoScuzzy. THIRSTY.
- sundvor 11y agoGreat article - those Chrome plugins with their (to the normal users) vague permissions are borderline evil. I nearly snorted coffee onto my keyboard when reading some of their potential counter responses; made my morning.
- abrkn 11y ago> http?s
- nl 11y agoUmm.. wouldn't a Pinterest user actually want this? It seems to me that it be a useful tool for the users (who chose to install the Pinterest plugin)
- aclimatt 11y agoAbsolutely. I don't see how this is an ad. It's the one and only feature that the plugin itself provides -- pin (as of recently) an article to read later. Just like you can pin pictures. Isn't this precisely why you'd install the Chrome plugin in the first place?
- knughit 11y agoThe complaint is that instead of living in the browser Chrome where it belongs , it is creeping into pages. But I guess this is how * displays its alert bubble too. And recenty has been inserting ads for some "survey" into web pages. *Uninstall ghostery, install ublock origin.
- nl 11y agoYes, I understand that. I'm unconvinced that - just because that is how it has always been done - it is the best way to do it.
- ewang1 11y agoLooks like someone at Pinterest has updated the code[0] to exclude Readability.com [0] http://assets.pinterest.com/ext/cr_139.js http://assets.pinterest.com/ext/cr_139.js
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- betimsl 11y agoI think pinterest is the most useless thing on the internet and don't really know why even people use it at all especially people that don't sign in, you can't even scroll half the page before it completely puts a layer and forces user to signin/create account.