Frienditto.

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Frienditto appears to be a "service" which removes all privacy from friends-only and private posts if any of its subscribers are on your friends list. It also removes all privacy from its subscribers own friends-only posts, of course, which is something that the morons who subscribe to it seem to have missed. It is not in any way an authorised part of Livejournal.

If I become aware that anyone on my flist is a subscriber they will be deleted (and I have already worked out how to pin it down to the person responsible fairly quickly), if anyone else becomes aware that my friends-only posts are being compromised this way PLEASE let me know.

Comments

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

I go away for a few days and all sorts of bad things happen. I've never heard of frienditto or whatever, and I certainly wouldn't have joined if I had. What an unbelievable invasion of privacy.

[mind-of-richard.livejournal.com]

Check out this LJ Community http://www.livejournal.com/community/ditto_cops/ (http://www.livejournal.com/community/ditto_cops/). They are listing what LJ Users have a Frienditto account.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to feel a little sorry for anyone who was stupid enough to sign up for it. Having a few hundred thousand people annoyed with you can't be fun.

[mind-of-richard.livejournal.com]

Before today, I had no clue about any of this.

As for the annoyance factor, I agree with you I feel sorry for this people a little. They sign up, not thinking about the ramifications, and now they have every self appointed net cop looking for them. Still, maybe it will teach them a lesson to read the fine print before they do something.

[ex-dogmeat720.livejournal.com]

That is shocking... :(

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

It's just a robot used for archiving post. It does what people could do already, just copy and paste entries (and comments) and posts it online.

If a friends-only post is found on frienditto, it isn't the websites fault - it's the friend who decided it would be such a good idea to archive that single entry.

It does not remove all privacy or anything and the general panic about it it is just a load of bollocks.