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Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by timdoug on Friday June 04, 2010 @01:11AM (#1403552)
timdoug offers one-line opt-out (in /etc/hosts):

  127.0.0.1       tcr.tynt.com
...and this is cross-browser and doesn't disappear when I clear my cookies.
Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by bonsaitree on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:03AM (#1403628)
Indeed. Tynt is an absolute abomination going against both basic clipboard usability and Web content mores.

I will forevermore pronounce Tynt as taint.

Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by jamesbritt on Friday June 04, 2010 @01:18AM (#1403559)
BTW, are there any advantages to either that or

    0.0.0.0 tcr.tynt.com


?
Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by bonsaitree on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:06AM (#1403634)
No. They're both "reserved" loop-back addresses, but 127.0.0.1 has more cultural/conventional weight for this explicit purpose and also avoids any possible semantic overloads with dotted-quad zero and/or null values.
Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by jamesbritt on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:12PM (#1405088)
Thanks.

Since I have a local web server running that will respond on 127.0.0.1 I'd just as soon avoid the overhead of the wasted hit and rendering of the local page, unless there was some notable value to using that address over all nulls.

Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by inklesspen on Sunday June 06, 2010 @12:40AM (#1408011)
Your local webserver will likely also respond on 0.0.0.0; if you bind to a port on 0.0.0.0, you listen on all interfaces, which is the default in apache.
Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by jamesbritt on Sunday June 06, 2010 @12:58PM (#1408716)
Ah, interesting. Thanks.
Re:Tynt’s Chief Operating Officer Talks About Privacy by jonursenbach on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:02AM (#1403627)
No.