Is addthis.com Safe?

I looked at the script, because I see this site all over the place. All it does is procedurally generate a list of clickable links to social networks and appends/encodes the current page you are on into the link. Yes, IF YOU CLICK ON THEM, you will be tracked by the network you select. That is, it will take note of where you were when you clicked it. If you DO NOT click on them, it is harmless. It is easy to spot and identify. It is a floating horizontal bar with the major social network icons. If you are here considering whether to allow this site to run scripts, I see no reason to let them run unless you actually want to use the sharing buttons it generates. It is harmless, but also pretty useless.

This domain primary activities are tracking you and social bookmarking services. AddThis can be integrated into a website with the use of a web widget. After the AddThis widget is added, visitors to the website can bookmark an item using a variety of services. This domain is a privacy concern. Because it tracks you. In other words, this domain tracks you from site to site. Collect that information. Then sell it to third parties to monetize. Source at ***** AddThis says its servers collect your information about your: - internet protocol (IP) address. - browser type. - browser language. - the date and time you visited that web page. - if you came to a web page where an AddThis Button is enabled via a search - engine such as Google, the web search that landed you on that web page. Source at ***** To protect your privacy, you might be intested to use the Firefox browser built-in social bookmarking service instead. Which is Community-owned. Compare to Corporate-owned with AddThis. Firefox do not track you. This domain name is owned by the for profit corporation Oracle Corporation which owns AddThis. Source at https://gwhois.org/addthis.com+dns ***** Oracle Corporation are located at: 500 Oracle Parkway M/S 501ip3 Redwood Shores CA 94065 US

Launched in September 2006, AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing . The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…and again…and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. ...

I am going to give it a tentative light green after reading their very long privacy policy.It does collect quite a bit- but also it presumably uses stricter standards. The terms were very long- but clear and low on doublespeak. I see no benefit in allowing it- but I have seen far far worse privacy policies than theirs.

"AddThis is a media web-tracking technology company based in Vienna, Virginia, United States. The company operates AddThis.com, a social bookmarking service that can be integrated into a website with the use of a web widget. Once the widget is added, visitors to the website can bookmark an item using a variety of services, such as Facebook, MySpace, Google Bookmarks, Pinterest, and Twitter. The site reaches 1.3 billion unique visitors monthly and is used by more than 14 million web publishers." Source: *****

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