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[arethinn]

You can enable or disable these preview images within your journal at the Viewing Options page. To stop seeing these preview images, click on "Options" in the upper-right corner of any preview. You can then choose to disable previews on "THIS Site" (throughout LiveJournal) or "All Sites" (all websites).

Funny, that setting seemed to affect everything on LJ before. Even if I have misunderstood something about its functioning then or now, IMO that is Right way. I shouldn't have to succumb to it in order to turn it off. Also, this sounds like it is accomplished by a cookie from Snap (how else can this affect "all websites"?) which would mean I have to do it on EVERY COMPUTER I USE which is Wrong. (Not that I won't have to do that anyway, but I mean, it should be an LJ-contained account setting, so I set it once and it holds no matter where I log in.) And you people who delete all your private info every session? Sorry, you'll have to turn it off every time. WTF?

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[michiexile]

And you people who delete all your private info every session? Sorry, you'll have to turn it off every time. WTF?

Alright, I'm going to point at this and point out the folly of being upset over this particular fact. If you delete your private info, you delete, while you're at it, most of the chances LJ has to actually store information about you in a manner accessible for Snap. Deleting private info includes deleting cookies, which means that whatever information got stored on the computer (which is where Snap is looking for the information, not being able to peep inside LJ's internals and all) gets deleted and thus will not be around any more next time through.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I'm going to point at this and point out the folly of being upset over this particular fact.

I'm not, because I don't do that. I allow certain cookies to persist, exactly because I hate having to log in every time to [whatever].

Deleting private info includes deleting cookies, which means that whatever information got stored on the computer (which is where Snap is looking for the information, not being able to peep inside LJ's internals and all)

But if it's an LJ account preference... which clearly it can be, because you cna turn it off for yourself... then that would mean once you're logged in (which, yes, you have to do every time, but I assume if you delete cookies every session, you've made peace with that fact) you wouldn't then *also* have to go turn this off every single time. It's an extra annoyance.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

NB I am not saying that should affect "all websites." I just mean that I shouldn't have to let *Snap* set a cookie to turn off display *only within LJ*.

[rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure what a "Snap Preview" is - but I'm scared of it now. . . .

I will say that I'm on a really good Dell computer, but the way LJ cookies are saved in my cache, I have to go in and delete them sometimes so I can see new versions of pages.

Sometimes it doesn't appear that I have logged out when I actually have. This is the only website with which I have this problem.

Or, when I post on my LJ, and then edit, I can't see the edit page. These pages don't refresh the way they should for some unknown reason.

So about twice a week, I go to Internet Options, Browsing History, Settings, View Files, and I do a search at the top for "Livejournal" and delete all those files, then I do a search for "Sixapart" and delete the cookie.

Usually that works, and even though I have to log back in, it solves alot of problems.

I don't know if that helps or not, but it's something I have to do every few days or so in order to stay sane on LJ.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure what a "Snap Preview" is - but I'm scared of it now. . . .

You should be seeing little speech-bubble-like icons appear next to links on LJ. If you hover your mouse over it, it shows a thumbnail of the destination page. To do so it has to load that page, of course. This sucks bandwidth (which is mighty annoying in dialup) and I'm sure implementing this is one of the reasons they are being so adamant about locking down or eliminating "adult content" -- why, you never know what horrible pr0n might be in that preview!

[rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com]

OK - thanks! I have seen those little things and wondered why they started that???

It already takes pages too long to load on LJ, especially the ones with lots of images. And obviously, if something is a link, you can tell that just by seeing it, so why do we need those?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

It's not really to tell you that it is a link, it's so you can see what's at the other end without having to click on it. Personally I don't see why that's useful and yeah, it slows loading time.