69105

I don’t comment anywhere near as much as I’d like to. On blogs though I can usually remember enough to find a blog to follow up and if there is a ‘Subscribe to comments’ I’ll use that or get the comments feed. But I’m starting to comment more on other sites - The Register, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times etc and they are horrible to navigate back to. So I again went looking for something that could track comments and landed back at Cocomment. I’ve used it before when it launched and I forgot why I stopped but I signed up for it again.

At work we - unsurprisingly - use blogs to communicate with each other. The blogs are - unsurprisingly - private. So I don’t actually want those urls and my comments appearing anywhere else. It’s private and I would consider some other blogs where I comment to also be ‘off limits’ to tracking what I write on them. So I went to one of the staff blogs and as I’m making a comment I tell the Cocomment extension to blacklist the site. But what I write in the comment I leave appears on the cocomment site. I blacklist another site, make a comment and that comment also appears at their domain.

http://www.cocomment.com/myBlacklist
I want to use coCOmment everywhere except on the following Urls

I have 4 work blogs listed there and every comment I make will appear in the public view of my Cocomment account.

I did test this by logging out of wordpress.com, out of cocomment and using browsers that had logged in to neither - and my comments on a blacklisted site still appeared.

I contacted Cocomment on Twitter: @cocomment - Why have a site blacklist when it does not work? It’s false privacy.
The reply: @69105 I do not fully understand your question. Shoot me an email and lets talk about it.
I sent an email explaining the situation and my expectation that blacklisting should mean no information is revealed. And I just got a reply:

we know the problem with blacklist functionality..
but it’s not the primary issue for us at the moment….
we’re working for new concept and design so may be next year blacklist
processing becomes better..
thanx for your patience..

This makes a nonsense of the twitter reply I got.
It makes a nonsense of the fact they say nothing about their blacklist actually being broken when you try to use it
And that reply means “Hey we are doing fun stuff, screw your privacy needs because we just don’t care”.