Snap Preview and MyBlogLog? No thanks.
I keep coming across all these sites that feel it necessary to tell me not only where that link ranks among its top outgoing links (MyBlogLog) but what the outbound (and sometimes internal) page will look like. When both of these are used in combination, or even by themselves sometimes it just kills me inside. Even well designed and thought out websites are totally wasting everything when you hover on a link.
I’m sure MyBlogLog is a great thing, etc… but I will never be able to bring my self to sign up for it. Do you get extra traffic? Maybe if your avatar is some naked woman? No matter how well you can integrate their stupid “Recent Community Members” widget, it always ruins a design. It doesn’t help that when you hover on an outgoing link, the webmaster enabled MyBlogLog to track clicks and it will report it to you.
Have MyBlogLog? Have AdSense, or any other CPC ad units? Guess what. MyBlogLog is owned by Yahoo for those of you that didn’t know. That means that they are tracking your clicks, and therefore tracking their competitors CTR. I don’t know the legality of this, but they could technically output this data and claim it as a breach of TOS for AdSense, seeing as you’re not supposed to share CTR and other stats like that.
And the Snap Preview Anywhere widget just adds fuel to this fire that is annoying windows on hover. Don’t get me wrong, when TechCrunch uses it in the way that allows you to avoid it and hover on the icon instead, that works fine for me. In fact, any site can enable that, and probably any user can do it for themselves. Unfortunately, I’m not going to spend the time that I would be spending browsing your site disabling these stupid plugins.
So whatever happened to simple and unobtrusive? This is my promise to you, the reader, to never burden you with having to put up with horrible windows on links, and that I will never register for MyBlogLog.
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