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I am really saddened to read of this purchase. Apture breaks the web in many ways. As you note it screws up and steals/hijacks mouse behavior. It also round t
by jerrya 15y ago
I am really saddened to read of this purchase.
Apture breaks the web in many ways. As you note it screws up and steals/hijacks mouse behavior. It also round trips to their servers any selection you make, making it a privacy leak. They make it hard to opt-out of their javascript menace, and it clutters up a page.
"a browser extension" if it were solely a browser extension I wouldn't mind it so much. The behavior that is most borrowsome is the stuff they license to folks like the NYTimes, the Apture Hotspots.
- pasbesoin 15y agoOne of the reasons I finally gave in to Adblock+ was as a convenient means of implementing a filter against the JS that perpetrates that NYT annoyance. My concern is as to if/when this gets rolled into core Chrome. As long as the functionality is loading over the wire, I'll remain hopeful that I can block it and that sites will remain usable in that state. If it's an extention or plug in that I can disable, I can live with that as well, I guess. If it's baked in... Well, I guess it won't be baked into Firefox et al. I don't mind useful, opt-in lookup features. For example, the Babelfish Firefox extension that does select and click translation. But such features continue to be killed off. I suspect initiatives like this purchase are instead intended more to "game" me into further staying/interacting with "blessed" sites and their subsidiary or partner content. It's their content, I guess. But I'll probably "opt out".