Comments on: AddThis Gets Smart(er) http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Aliza Sherman http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87550 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87550 I always wonder about the Big Brother-ish feel of some cookied applications but I often weigh convenience and usefulness over the “fear of being stalked by marketers.”

By the way, does anyone know if Macs are vulnerable to Spyware? I don’t think I’ve ever seen any evidence of it. Cookies, sure, but invasive spyware? Anyone know?

]]> By: Sergey http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87549 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:31:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87549 Agreed! You shouldn’t trust Addthis. Their Flash cookie makes it easy for them to spy and track on the 500 million or however many users come across their widgets. And last time I looked at Sharethis it had poor password management. My advice is to forget these companies, and quit running arbitrary code on your sites that’s out of your control. Use a sharing script that’s both free and free from spyware-on-the-web. Ever wonder why they’re free? Think about it. Steer clear!

]]> By: Justin Thorp http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87548 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:24:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87548 Steve, specifically what do you like the most about AddToAny. I’d love to hear the feedback.

Have you seen the work that we’ve been doing with our AddThis Toolbox product?
http://addthis.com/help/toolbox

Anxious to hear your thoughts – justin@addthis.com

]]> By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87547 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:21:48 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87547 I believe ShareThis as well does not use flash cookies to track users without their knowledge (reading a EULA in tiny print on a remote website isn’t informed consent).

]]> By: Steve Roy http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87546 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:20:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87546 I use neither of these.. I have tried both but I swear by AddToAny : http://www.addtoany.com – it works better and looks better. Why doesn’t webworker use one?

]]> By: Justin Thorp http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87545 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:23:48 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87545 Ola, thanks so much for trying AddThis and for the feedback. How can we make the print functionality better?

-Justin – Community Manager for AddThis
justin@addthis.com

]]> By: Ola Rynge http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87544 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:59:13 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87544 After testing the print fucntion I was very disapointed though, it just printed the page as if I would have used “ctrl+p”. :(

]]> By: Ola Rynge http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87543 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:52:52 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87543 I have been using sharethis on my page until I read this post. However it wasn’t anything in the post that made me change, but rather that I found out that add this has a “print” function, while share this doesn’t.

I still miss a “translate and share” function though…

]]> By: Will http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/addthis-gets-smarter/#comment-87542 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:34:21 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19789#comment-87542 I use AddThis because their widget is easier for users to use and for me to customize. ShareThis tries to jam too much stuff into their popup window, making it hard to use. ST also sometimes has bad display lags when it tries to get the ui from the ST servers.

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