Cherry-Picking The Web Content Integrity6/5/2000; 7:16:10 AM April 18, 2000: Cherry-Picking The Web: "Metabrowsers let surfers select whatever content they want from anywhere on the Web and gather it all on one site." More integrity dissolution.And a small correction to the article:
CallTheShots cofounder and CEO Reza Moazzami contends – rather unconvincingly – that most Web sites should be delighted to have chunks of their content cherry-picked for a ComboPage, because when someone clicks on a link within an element, it will lead to the third-party Web site. "I'm sure there will always be situations where sites will express that kind of concern," says Moazzami. "What we try to do is make sure we address those concerns." He says his company, which is still in beta, has yet to receive a complaint from a third-party site.Perhaps technically true, but a lot of sites just plain block CallTheShots' access to their servers, without making any particular kind of fuss in public. For instance, I don't think you can get Slashdot through CallTheShots.com. (BTW, I've talked about CallTheShots.com before.)
). AOL's interception proxy was rendering our pages unreadable, even though the AOL browser was perfectly capable of rendering the page, because AOL processed the graphics and destroyed them in the process. In addition, the AOL proxy was serving old copies of the job postings page, causing people to apply for jobs that had already been filled; and worse, not applying for the current jobs.We've since corrected those issues, but it was months before someone told us about them. Our browser logs indicate that the person who told us about the problem was far from the only visitor from AOL... what did the rest of them think, as they left our site, most likely never to return?That provides one small real-world explanation of the pragmatic anti-proxy argument, as expressed in the article: