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Tumblr pulls douche-move wants Missing-E Chrome Plugin to forfeit all rights to support

So, rather than realizing that the Missing-E plugin for Chrome provides some truly awesome and helpful features that all Tumblr users would benefit from, they want Missing-E users to give up all support for their account. Tumblr is saying to us: “Ditch the plugin because it messes with our system or we’re not going to ever support any problems you have with your account, even ones that are our fault.”

I *refuse* to support or succumb to this kind of strong-arm tactic. I love Tumblr as a platform, but when management would rather force us to behave how they want rather than adapt to what users want or to what would genuinely improve their platform, it seems pretty unfair. Tumblr is a company whose success is built on users providing buckets of free content. This user doesn’t appreciate them telling me what to do.

All they have to do is adopt the very logical features the Missing-E plugin provides and I’d happily ditch the plugin.

Oh and in case you thought you could just use another browser to continue using Tumblr, think again. I tried using Chrome Canary (which does NOT have the plugin installed) to write this post, and also Safari on my iThingy, but I get the same message on both. So, I’ve written this post in gmail and will email it in. This will likely be my last Tumblr post for a while. Hopefully, Tumblr will allow it to post to my Tumblr. If not, it’ll be on Flickr, Ipernity and my own blog, at least.

A net blackout could sure be effective if you think about it

coalspeaker:

Dramatic action may be taken by popular internet giants.. imagine a day with no Google search.. no Facebook .. Imagine no Tweets.. no Amazon shopping.. All blacked out in an attemmpt to protest SOPA.. it could happen .. the tech companies are considering it.. And it could also be quite effective in opening the net users’ eyes to what SOPA could actually mean in the future when, instead of companies blacking their own sites out, the government does it for them..

Interesting idea… Personally, I think HR 1540 is a bigger deal than SOPA, but SOPA’s still bad.  Let’s hope more is done about it.