First A Ball…
— By Jami on March 26, 2009 at 8:00 am
I wonder what is up with my Mozilla. I have Interclue installed, so when I hover over a link, I can click on the little blue square and pop open a little bitty window and peek at what is behind the link. This works wonders when I use it on a message board or something. When I hover over someone’s picture on OkCupid, Interclue prompts me with its little blue square. Sometimes I hover, sometimes I’m just moving my mouse around. Either way, it seems that it’s registering me as a Stalker to someone’s profile!
Ack! Maybe this is why I seem to draw in all the crazies???
Who knows. I love Interclue enough that I’m not planning on getting rid of it just because of this glitch, but yea, I think I have something to blame when I get emails like this:
Hi,
Noticed that you fricking stopped by my muther*&%#$# profile? Whaddya fu***&#g think?Randy
Honestly-you are a VERY beatifull woman. If you don’t mind making a new (noncreepy) older friemd that would be great. I’m trying to expand my social network and looking for fellow companions to share this life with. Check me out on Facebook. Randy Sandoval – Louisville, KY.
Um. I suppose because I mention something about being foul-mouthed in my profile, he’s using this as an “in” – What? Really? I love cussing, too! OMG we must be soulmates!
Anybody else think that being a 47 year old dude from a state over 300 miles away kind of solidifies the whole “kind of creepy” thing? And how does talking to a girl in Atlanta expand your social network? We are not going to be facebook friends, dude!
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Hi. I’m the CEO of Interclue and also an OkCupid user. Despite this, it had never occured to me that our (highly selective) prefetching feature would be resulting in inadvertent stalking! By default, Interclue will pre-fetch any link that you hover your mouse on for .1s – which helps speed things up without causing too much unnecessary downloading. You can turn off prefetching or change the timing to something other than .1s, but what I strongly recommend instead is simply disabling Interclue on OkCupid by clicking the status bar icon and selecting “Disable Interclue on this site”. I think I’ll go do that right now so I don’t accidentally stalk anyone else! Prefetching is disabled for a large number of links for various reasons, and we’ll add Okcupid profile links to that list now! Thanks for bringing it to our attention (by way of the google alert I get when people mention Interclue on the intarwebs).
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Woah, sweet! Glad I could help make Interclue better
Thanks, man.
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