To trigger the Cross Site Scripting notification toolbar, I had to both select some text and copy it pretty fast – in fact, I managed to copy it before Tynt had managed to modify the clipboard with the footer information and permalink to the content. Is this a known bug in IE8?

Derek
Tynt

Best,

Derek

You do raise one key point, we don’t promote Tynt as an anti-plagiarism tool. We are of the belief that people are going to copy and spread content and that this can be a healthy thing if done properly. If someone really wants to plagiarize your blog, they will, one way or another. Instead, we want to help make sure that the ‘casual copier’ (who is sending something they liked in your work to someone they know, or reposting on facebook) is encouraged to include a linkback to your work. These linkbacks have already proved to drive significant traffic for our beta sites, plus more links in the wild proliferating means that some of them end up where the robots and spiders will find them and improve your SEO.

So we are really focused on making sure you benefit when people copy your content through increased traffic, SEO, and knowledge of what content people are engaging with the most.

If you have an active blog, check out our new ‘heatmap’ feature which will color code your content so you can see what you are writing that is compelling people to take action.

As for your fear of possible conflicts, we now have thousands and thousands of sites running Tracer in all sorts of environments. We found a couple conflicts very early in the beta testing and had them fixed within hours of it being reported. I’m happy to say that in the last several weeks we haven’t found any new conflicts.

Best,

Derek from Tynt

More importantly, it isn’t checking for copy/paste operations, just copy. I’m one of those people who clicks and reclicks paragraphs as I read, so you’re getting a bunch of false positives from people like me.