Always goes through their servers add-to-any .. it's cool. i understand it's free, but i'd rather have something a bit less in your face pushing of the service.
[Plugin: Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button] Invasive (3 posts)
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sphereboy
Posted 3 months ago # -
Thanks for your thoughts. I'm not sure about the title of this post - the plugin is not invasive - feel free to check AddToAny's privacy policy and/or explore the source.
The reason most service URI schemes are redirected through AddToAny's servers is so that visitors are always properly connected to each service; no plugin updates ever required.
I'm sure you've stumbled across blogs, etc. that have sharing/bookmarking service dead-links, or links to totally defunct services (i.e. an outdated Sociable plugin). These links are not useful and a little embarrassing, so we took on the responsibility in early 2006 to help resolve the problem. Working with each of these services to provide a standard and reliable link exchange service, we've gotten to where we are today, which is pretty exciting. :)
Other reasons for links passing through AddToAny: automatic URL shortening, prompting users to enter their WordPress blog URL, OAuth. Respectively, for example, we do URL shortening for Twitter, prompt for the "Press This" URL for sharing to a WordPress blog, and do the OAuth handshake for other services.
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Posted 3 months ago #Thanks for the response. I'm going to test it out again. It's great to see passionate developers behind their products. My apologies for not reading the privacy policy.
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