Tumblr now lets you hide your blog from the internet
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9429767/tumblr-web-toggle
The secondary effect of Tumblr's move today is to make
it less of a web company and more of a walled garden. I don't
imagine Tumblr users will hide their blogs from the web en masse
-- though creators of Tumblr's many famous porn blogs might! But
driving users to Tumblr.com and apps makes it easier to deliver
targeted advertising to them, and I wonder if that isn't part of
Tumblr's calculation in making such a move. I also question the
decision to present visitors to private blogs with a 404 page,
which implies the blog has been deleted. In a year that has been
very bad to the web, Tumblr just made it a little more broken.
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I don't think this has *anything* to do with privacy. It smells like
walled garden from A to Z.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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