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Re: Show HN: Snip.ly, the link shortener that drives conversion

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Post by dangrossman »

ds9 wrote: post #19

Does anyone know what court precedents there are for a site owner O. suing companies C. that present altered versions of O's site to third parties T, without consent from O? Arguably C. is interfering in the relationship of O. to T., wrongfully appropriating O's content for profit, and possibly defaming O by making O. appear (to T.) to be associated with C. If such actions are not legally ruled out, this service may…

This is hardly the first site to frame another site. It's hardly the first link shortener to do so and add a message or ad in another frame or interstitial either. There's enough that "top 10 URL shorteners to make money" is an actual recurring blog post across the web.

Re: Show HN: Snip.ly, the link shortener that drives conversion

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Post by jasonlotito »

opendais wrote: post #27

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking I'm not seeing how encouraging end users to engage in behavior that sites specifically turn off for security reasons as a 'good idea' regardless of the marketing value..?

People see Airbnb as a good idea, this shouldn't be a surprise.

Re: Show HN: Snip.ly, the link shortener that drives conversion

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Post by opendais »

jasonlotito wrote: post #42
opendais wrote: post #27

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking I'm not seeing how encouraging end users to engage in behavior that sites specifically turn off for security reasons as a 'good idea' regardless of the marketing value..?

People see Airbnb as a good idea, this shouldn't be a surprise.

I'd be just as surprised if people posted AirBnb on a site for lawyers in NYC and the majority of lawyers thought it was a 'good idea'.

I fully expect the end users of this product to be oblivious to technical minutiae like clickjacking. I was just expecting a stronger reaction to the technical detail this relies on a tech-heavy start up site like Hacker News.

Re: Show HN: Snip.ly, the link shortener that drives conversion

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Post by eliot_sykes »

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eliot_sykes wrote: post #37

I'm not sure about this. Mmm. My gut feeling is I wouldn't feel too cool about using it, and I'd guess that if you gave news sites the chance to opt-in to being framed, not many would take Snip.ly up on it. But I might be missing the full picture, and perhaps I'm just not the target audience. Good luck to Snip.ly, but for developers who would want to stop this kind of thing from happening on their own sites, OWASP ha…

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Ah ok, that makes sense. I'm still a tad uneasy about it. Thanks for the reply.
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