Idling: AlphaInventions.com DO NOT WANT

Anyone figure out if AlphaInventions has a working optout? I’d rather not have my stuff in someone else’s frame. The site skews my reader statistics and completely fails the smell test.

UPDATE: Ah, what ten minutes of googling will bring. The site is widely considered to be little more than a click/view generator. Perfect for inflating statistics. Shit for actually connecting to people. At least it is easy to ignore (read: filter out) in the statistics. If I ever move this blog to a private hosting, the first thing I’ll be adding to the .htaccess is a block for all traffic coming from alphainventions.com.

UPDATE 2: Got bored, did a little more googling about AI. The consensus from the comments of several dozen odd blog posts (all chosen at idle whim and certainly not by any scientific means) places AI “featured blog writers” into two camps. Turns out either you LUV them and are gushing about the server straining traffic, or you’re a scab writer writing about AI in a vain effort to score more eyeballs. These comments showed up regardless the post they were attached to was in praise of AI or condemning AI.

I see it’s time to start looking up frame-busting scripts again.

UPDATE 3: For those pointing out AI has an opt-out link…

Let me know when it works.

(IE in a sandbox VM. I’m not THAT brave!)


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