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Ever notice how the page refreshes every time you highlight something on posterous?

17 pointsmyoung87 comments

They use a service called Tracer: http://tynt.com/

Get rid of it.

   sudo echo "127.0.0.1 tcr.tynt.com" >> /etc/hosts

Adblock plus would do as well for FF users :)

shell redirection does not work with sudo (at least with bash). You will get a permission denied with this command

Good call, thanks for that tip.

I've seen this in a few places, actually - it's good to know whose bandwidth I'm wasting every time I highlight some text for readability reasons.

You'll have better luck with Readability :) - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Wow, that actually works pretty well. Tried it with some random bookmarks and it seems to struggle with certain pages (http://www.softsynth.com/pforth/pf_faq.html for example), but on the whole it seems very useful indeed - thanks for the heads-up!

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