Comments on: Is Ow.ly Framejacking?

By: wisefritz

wisefritz — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:07:00 +0000

Spoofing, Chase Bank fraud, fraud, fraud. Avoid like the plague, unless you are stupid.

By: happyjourney

happyjourney — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:04:37 +0000

i spelled recommend wrong and it won’t let me edit.

By: happyjourney

happyjourney — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:52:39 +0000

I got sent a link with an owly address in the email from someone i don’t recognize and i’m not going to click on it cause i’m suspicious. i’d reccomend anyone do the same. there can’t be any real legitimate need to hide an original web address from what i can see.

By: MisterMarley

MisterMarley — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:19:33 +0000

So whats the difference between Ow.ly and Adf.ly? Are they owned by the same company?

By: Oscar M Johnson Jr

Oscar M Johnson Jr — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:44:24 +0000

http://ow.ly/2fjzp?=www.facebook.com/photo.php
this file was downloaded and screwed up my facebook page, I cannot access facebook because it keep saying “you do not have access to your account because you not confirmed that you are human. Please come back later and tray again”. something has to be done about this.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:10:23 +0000

Ow.ly is definitely framejacking. Framejacking doesn’t require ads.

The problems from a webmaster’s perspective:

* A framejacker tries to “own” your content by putting it on their own URL.
* When the visitor copies and pastes the URL to link to your site, they copy the framejacking URL. Many things can go wrong, such as the framejacking website going off-line or out of business permanently or the visitor browsing to another page and then trying to copy the URL (which never changes, so the link is wrong)

The problems from a visitor’s perspective:

* Framejacking URLs hijack the browser — it’s very difficult to know exactly where you are on the web without being able to see the URL.
* When you browse to a different page, the URL doesn’t change. If you want to copy a URL, you have to popout the frame, which is something that many people don’t know how to do.
* Basically, from a visitor’s perspective, it’s about controlling your own browser. Websites should never touch the URL (framejacking) or the status bar text. Both of them are annoying and are security risks.

IIRC, a court in the late 1990s or early 2000s ruled that it was legal to framejack, but I think that was only because law was/is behind technology. I don’t think that is right or should be legal for one webmaster or service to be able to frame someone else’s content through their lens — whether that lens is an HTML frame or something even newer like Google SideWiki. The laws need to catch up.

By: Ayla

Ayla — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:56 +0000

This toolbar is a PAIN!!! It loads on its own…you don't get a choice… THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEND!!!! I will NEVER use this piece of JUNK!!!

I can't stand this type of SPAM!!!!