another day, another bugbear: Frienditto

Ho, hum, look Mabel, there's a new Great Satan of the Internet: Frienditto!

Today's drama is that Frienditto bills itself as an "archiving service": you give it the URL of a LiveJournal post, and Frienditto archives it on their system (which looks and feels a lot like LiveJournal itself). If the post is friends-locked, you can still archive it if you give them your LJ username and password. I'm not sure why anyone would want to do such a thing, but charcoal a son goat and all that.

In the last day or so a lot of people have been saying things like, "If you use Frienditto, please remove me from your friends list." Which, IMNSHO, is not a particularly useful response.

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