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HuffPo infiltrates your copy and paste

mikehudack:

spiegelman:

Ever tried to copy and paste something out of a HuffPo article?  Give it a shot.

huffpo:

Last month, we asked for your help in picking the HuffPost Game Changers, 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.



Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/meet-the-huffpost-game-ch_b_302980.html

That “read more” link?  I didn’t copy that.  It pasted itself in there.  Some fundamental rule of etiquette is being violated.  Not to mention I don’t know how they did it and it scares/intrigues me.

JavaScript at its best.

Lotsa sights doing that now. Politico, NYPost.com, Daily Mail, etc. I don’t think it’s so bad. It gets them some inbound links from non-judicious scrapers, and if you’re paying attention, you just delete it if you care to.

  1. benonymous reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    politico tried this for a few days… it went away pretty quickly.
  2. thomaswheatley reblogged this from spiegelman and added:
    I recently noticed the same thing when I copied and pasted an excerpt from a NY Daily News article. What’s strange is...
  3. doublejack reblogged this from spiegelman and added:
    I’m not bothered by it — in fact, I kind of like it. Since I like to attribute my quotes with a link, they’ve just saved...
  4. josephweisenthal reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Lotsa sights doing that now. Politico, NYPost.com, Daily Mail, etc. I don’t think it’s so bad. It gets them some inbound...
  5. mikehudack reblogged this from spiegelman and added:
    JavaScript at its best.
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