{"id":7422,"date":"2015-08-05T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2015-08-05T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:51:08","slug":"a-matter-of-no-pinterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=7422","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of No Pinterest"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pinterest_ban_2_450x450.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pinterest_ban_2_100x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"border: none ; float: left ; margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: 0 ; margin-right: 1em ;\" \/><\/a> <p>A number of visitors have <q>pinned<\/q> images from this site to their boards at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a>.  These actions wouldn't bother me, except that I am very offended with the way that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> attempts to compel visitors to log-into their site to look at boards, and to register an account even to contact them over an issue.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> throws a <em>mask<\/em> between their content and a visitor (and have tweaked the coding of the mask to prevent its blocking).<\/p> <p>I used to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> account, but I walked away from it over the demand that I be logged-in to see what my then-girlfriend had pinned to her boards.  I find now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> has the <em>chutzpah<\/em> to mask <a href=\"https:\/\/in.pinterest.com\/source\/oeconomist.com\/\">the specific set of images <em>from this site<\/em> pinned to the boards of various of their users<\/a>.<\/p> <p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> can drive visits to a site.  But I don't allow such concerns to determine the management of <em>this<\/em> site.)<\/p> <p>In order to obstruct the pinning of images from this site to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a>, I have added the tag <blockquote><code>&lt;meta name=\"pinterest\" content=\"nopin\" \/&gt;<\/code><\/blockquote> to the headers of this &#39;blog.  This obstruction is imperfect, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> uses <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, and I don't want to block everything else that does.  Nor do I want the code for this &#39;blog to test each visit to see whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a> client is attempting to effect a pinning.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of visitors have pinned images from this site to their boards at Pinterest. These actions wouldn't bother me, except that I am very offended with the way that Pinterest attempts to compel visitors to log-into their site to look at boards, and to register an account even to contact them over an issue. 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