Gacked from meallanmouse

[mousme]

This is a Public Service Announcement.

Turns out that Bloglines is syndicating LJs without permission. Syndicated feeds are one of those automatic things provided by LJ (insert technical explanation that I don't understand here). The problem is that the feeds are showing previews of friends-locked posts and even, I think, private entries.

So, yeah. Not a good thing.

Luckily, meallanmouse provides a handy-dandy link to an article that gives information on how to block this, if your journal happens to be among those being syndicated (you can search for your LJ username to see if that's the case).

So, now you know.

Comments

[chibipunkdemon.livejournal.com]

Hmm... the hand-dandy link doesn't seem to work. Is it a locked post?

If this is happening it would be LiveJournals fault for including the locked posts in the RSS feeds. I use Bloglines and have never seen a locked post show up in a livejournal I subscribe to.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the syndication sans permission - the RSS feed link is there and obvious, and so what.

The protected/private issue is... hm... from LJ:

"Protected entries are visible if the user requesting the feed is able to authenticate with LiveJournal and has permission to see the entries. Permission is granted through your browser's login cookies, or by HTTP Digest Auth by appending ?auth=digest to the URL."

Huh.

*emails bloglines*

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was the whole protected/private thing which kinda floored me.

Also, hotlinking. Not an issue for me, but bad for people who have lots of images on their LJ.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Er, beg pardon, meant to reply to the main post.  :p

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Weird. The link worked for me yesterday. Maybe she locked it since then.