ScribeFire Inserts Zemanta Web Bug
Posted by coldtobi | 28 Mar, 2009, 20:20I'm using the firefox extension "ScribeFire" for Firefox. It is a convenient blogging editor allowing me to prepare articles also when offline. But currently I'm a little pissed.
By coincident, I checked the generated html source and found that the plugin inserts the following "web bug" in each and every post:
<div class="zemanta-pixie">
<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6b77e2ed-0c94-8279-ad39-3b5bcb65605a" />
</div>
I don't have anything against Zemanta, actually the idea behind looks interesting. But what I really dislike that my blog and my readers are being tracked without my knowledge.
Dear Scribe-Fire-Team: PLEASE tell your users that you touch their privacy, when inserting such annoyances. Thank you.
PS: You can disable the webbug by unchecking it in the Scribe-Fire-Settings:
<—&mdash Showing ERROR? Click here!
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Bryan : Thanks!
19/08/2009, at 07:12 [ Reply ]
I was noticing this too. Thanks for showing how to disable.
Zemantapissedmyoff : Zemantapissedmyoff
14/04/2011, at 03:23 [ Reply ]
Zemanta it's just a piece of shit with hidden codde.
I had to delete it from around 400 articles!