Tynt Blocker Chrome extension stops Tynt from adding junk to your clipboard

Filed under: Internet, Utilities

If you've ever copied text from a website only to see an annoying "read more" message attached when you paste it, you've probably run across Tynt. Sites like The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle and even TechCrunch use Tynt to add analytics links to your clipboard when you copy text, so they can tell site owners what their readers are copying.

Most people just delete the extra crap after pasting, though, so Tynt is annoying to users and unhelpful to site owners.

John Gruber explained all of this in an excellent post on Daring Fireball, and he also linked to a Tynt Blocker extension for Chrome. Tynt Blocker does what it says it does, successfully blocking Tynt.

Unfortunately, it also pops up a window to confirm blocking for each new Tynt-equipped site you visit. You only have to do this once, but the lack of a "block all" option is an inconvenience.

Using Firefox? You might want to check out Ghostery, which can also block Tynt's annoyances.

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