is it secret? is it safe?

[just_cyd]

not if you're using ljtoys.

i have dial-up 'net (yes, i know i live in the dark ages). a while back i set my lj preferences to use placeholders for any graphic or image on my friends page to keep things speedy. only an inconvenience if i'm in a hurry. on slow 'net days, it's a big help to not time out while photos and stuff loads on my snail's pace of a connection.

the way the ljtoys monitor thingey works is by putting a tiny (1 pixel?) thingey in your post ... which, to me with my settings, shows up as a photo/graphic placeholder. when i make clicky on the placeholder, or view the entry, there's nothing there.

so, i can SEE your invisible hidden ljtoys spying thing. it's probably not a huge deal, since i'm probably the only person left on the planet who uses dialup, and therefore has a need for image/graphic placeholders on LJ, but i thought i'd throw this out there so those who think they're being all sneaky are not, really, and DIAL UP SEES ALL.

so :P

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Is THAT what that undisplayable image is, all over my friends list? Thank you! I'd been wondering.

(I use image/graphic placeholders even though I'm on broadband:
1. work environment, nuff said
2. stoopid large images making all the text on the whole stoopid page unreadable)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

if you click on it, and get a big fat nothing, then most likely. (i'm not smart enough to know other ways/causes for that kinda thing, so it's possible in more geeky circles there's another explanation.) i knew nothing about it 'til a friend mentioned that someone who claimed to hate her would read her lj all the time. so i just HAD to know more. :)

[anmorata.livejournal.com]

When I was being 'accused' of reading someone's LJ (I stumbled onto it by accidentally clicking on her name from a mutual friend's LJ), I found out about LJToys. Said someone is the new wife of an ex of mine. So I started using it to see if she was trolling my journal, as well. It's been more than 6 months ago, though.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

ok, that's messed up. don't put stuff out in a public place (ie. the internet!) if you don't want people reading it. people. *shakes head*

[anmorata.livejournal.com]

No kidding. She apparently uses LJToys to track IP addresses, and the time that I clicked on her name, I saw a post that detailed each person's IP address and demanding to know who they were. That's just completely nuts, IMO.

[frumpenstein.livejournal.com]

Things like this take all the fun right out of e-stalking. ;)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

no kidding. hopefully, it doesn't catch on too much, and we can continue to e-stalk to our little hearts desire.

[eciklb.livejournal.com]

Wow...I must be living under a rock. Totally missed the LJtoys thing.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

http://ljtoys.org.uk/

i didn't know about it either til a couple weeks ago.