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Despite the fact that most of the big social networking sites are pretty big spiders and grab every data they can get hold of, I got convinced to add a share button for those nasty things and hope this will bring some more entertainment for your and interaction.
Update:
After some experiments with addthis.com I decided to avoid an additional data spider that just wants to collect the juicy userdata on my page and just replace it with a dotlan-style dropbox that redirects you to your network where you wanna cross post the content. It fits better into the style. I hope you like it.
Examples:
wow… u sure u want that? now i have to allow dubious scripts from even more dubious sites to even see the map… as if google was not bad enough… do u know anything about privacy and why u should want ur users to have at least a bit of it? do u know that ur users data will be now sent to even more dubious people behind those ips who sell ur users data?
Don’t u think ur site is already popular enough (every EVE player who playes for some time uses or at least knows it) to not sell yourself (yet worse, your users) to those people?
Or what was it that convinced you to “addthis” to your site?
Well … I can still replace it. But I had a couple people that asked my they would like to do this. Just having share button that would lead to those side should basically be enough instead. Or having a share button that unlocks the buttons and loads the script afterwords (like the heise.de solution)
I’ll think about it and see what I can change. And yes … in theory google is enough for analytics. Addthis was just easy and fast to integrate when users poked me about a share function.
I just spent three and a half hours trying to sort out a problem generated by this change. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm lists addthis as a malicious page, which happens across ALL browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, and the IGB. This causes only the SVG maps to fail to render, instead just a whitespace where they should be.
I understand the need for revenue, but there has got to be someone more reputable than the method you’ve chosen.
To test if you have the same problem, bring up a command line (Start / Run / cmd.exe), and type
ping s7.addthis.com
If you get localhost (127.0.0.1) as a response, the addthis entries must be removed from your HOSTS file.
I’m already working on a solution. It will be replaced this night with a better solution. Just give me a couple minutes.
@Dave @nohotair I just kicked addthis out and replaced it with a lot simpler and better looking option. My own sharing dropdown which just redirects to the page if you click it.
I hope this will make you feel better (about 3rd party/privacy concerns)
Thanks for the quick fix!
Yep. Feeling much better now. 🙂 If there only was a way around google. 🙁
Thanks for ur work, much appreciated!