Comments on: Watch out: “Share this” plugin monitors your blog and your visitors http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/ OpenSource Consulting Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:52:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Gilberto Galea http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-53813
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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-53813 I thing that is an advantage, over a risk. Because you can see the reactions about your readers. If you think that "share this" project could be bad practices, you can use <a href="http://www.addthis.com/" rel="nofollow">"add this"</a> and problem result. Thanks by your concern. I thing that is an advantage, over a risk. Because you can see the reactions about your readers. If you think that “share this” project could be bad practices, you can use “add this” and problem result.
Thanks by your concern.

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-38982 @couchmouse - from reading the post, it seems this IS included in share-this classic. you can still get version 1.4 (before alex sold the plugin) from wordpress.org - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/download/ @couchmouse - from reading the post, it seems this IS included in share-this classic. you can still get version 1.4 (before alex sold the plugin) from wordpress.org - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/download/

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-35098 The old ShareThis Classic plugin version 1.5.1 is standalone and does not contact the Share This servers like the new one does. It is also faster because it is a self contained plugin and does not download anything (js, images, etc.) from Share This server. It is avail <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/share-this" rel="nofollow">Here</a> The phone home feature of the new Share This is why I still use the original version. The old ShareThis Classic plugin version 1.5.1 is standalone and does not contact the Share This servers like the new one does. It is also faster because it is a self contained plugin and does not download anything (js, images, etc.) from Share This server.
It is avail Here

The phone home feature of the new Share This is why I still use the original version.

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-34707 S.K: There tons of other <a href="http://www.google.de/search?q=social+bookmarking+plugins+for+WordPress&num=100" rel="nofollow">social bookmarking plugins for WordPress</a>. S.K: There tons of other social bookmarking plugins for WordPress.

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-34702 TwisterMc: Yes, there is a stats service. But you have to register for it, and I reckon that most users of the WP plugin don't even know about it. But the plugin tracks data for every user, while most users think this is just a tool to display social bookmarks links. I would expect this tracking feature to be optional, especially as the Terms of Service (and with that, the Privacy Policy) apply only to those who register for tracking -- see their <a href="http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=wpplugin" rel="nofollow">download page</a>. TwisterMc: Yes, there is a stats service. But you have to register for it, and I reckon that most users of the WP plugin don’t even know about it. But the plugin tracks data for every user, while most users think this is just a tool to display social bookmarks links.

I would expect this tracking feature to be optional, especially as the Terms of Service (and with that, the Privacy Policy) apply only to those who register for tracking — see their download page.

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-34673 Hi, I am scared of the mischievous "Share This" plugin after reading your post. Can you please advise me as to how to add a facility (by hard-coding) such that visitors can subscribe to only a few popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us etc. Thanks, S.K Hi,

I am scared of the mischievous “Share This” plugin after reading your post.

Can you please advise me as to how to add a facility (by hard-coding) such that visitors can subscribe to only a few popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us etc.

Thanks,

S.K

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Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/watch-out-share-this-plugin-monitors-your-blog-and-your-visitors/#comment-34648 Wouldn't this be needed for the stats service they are going to be releasing? They have to collect the data somehow. http://sharethis.com/example_report Wouldn’t this be needed for the stats service they are going to be releasing? They have to collect the data somehow. http://sharethis.com/example_report

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