Another LJ Fail Post - LJ is now showing user locations when IP are logged (hello stalker support)
Originally posted by heeroluva at Another LJ Fail Post - LJ is now showing user locations when IP are logged (hello stalker support)
So LJ's done it again. Some of you might have noticed that when you post comments in communities or people post comments to your own journal that the location is showing.
According to this lj_releases post "Users who have enabled Comment IP logging will now also see the Country and City information of the commenter. This information is only visible to the journal owner, community owner/maintainers, or author of the entry if it is posted to a community with this feature enabled (only those who can currently see IP information). This feature is providing the publicly available geo-location associated with the IP address in the same way the "location" feature on our Update page currently functions."
I don't know about most people, but I find this more than a little creepy. I personally don't want to see where other people are, or have other people see where I am. It makes me hesitant to makes comments now because I don't know who has this turned on or not.
This is not the same thing as the "location" feature when a person makes a post. That is 100% voluntary. This is not. This is not cool. There is no way to opt out or protect yourself from it. You can turn it off in your journal, but that doesn't do anything for other journals/comms that have it turned on.
There is a difference between taking an IP address and manually entering it into a site that will spit out a location for you, and having it automatically done without asking.
The way it was before wasn't broken, and I can't imagine that people actually asked for it, so why mess with it? How about you change it back LJ?
So spread the word, create support tickets, and tell LiveJournal just how much you don't like this change.
So LJ's done it again. Some of you might have noticed that when you post comments in communities or people post comments to your own journal that the location is showing.
According to this lj_releases post "Users who have enabled Comment IP logging will now also see the Country and City information of the commenter. This information is only visible to the journal owner, community owner/maintainers, or author of the entry if it is posted to a community with this feature enabled (only those who can currently see IP information). This feature is providing the publicly available geo-location associated with the IP address in the same way the "location" feature on our Update page currently functions."
I don't know about most people, but I find this more than a little creepy. I personally don't want to see where other people are, or have other people see where I am. It makes me hesitant to makes comments now because I don't know who has this turned on or not.
This is not the same thing as the "location" feature when a person makes a post. That is 100% voluntary. This is not. This is not cool. There is no way to opt out or protect yourself from it. You can turn it off in your journal, but that doesn't do anything for other journals/comms that have it turned on.
There is a difference between taking an IP address and manually entering it into a site that will spit out a location for you, and having it automatically done without asking.
The way it was before wasn't broken, and I can't imagine that people actually asked for it, so why mess with it? How about you change it back LJ?
So spread the word, create support tickets, and tell LiveJournal just how much you don't like this change.