# How did my Skype account get linked here? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 17, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242 "2012-12-17T00:43:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/1 "2012-12-17T00:43:45Z")
I don’t remember setting that up. I’m the sort of person who always clicks NO on pop-ups, unless I’m expecting them. Did Skype do this? Did my SO think he’d be helpful and do it for me? Is this now an automatic function of the board? Who should I be outraged at? ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/2 "2012-12-17T00:46:56Z")
OK, now its not there, and I went to look at the post where it was. Its gone there as well. I really haven’t been smoking catnip or anything. Sorry, move along, nothing to see here. If a mod could close this thread, that would be great. slinks off to the sound of mocking laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/3 "2012-12-17T01:03:19Z")
_points and laughs_ ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/4 "2012-12-17T01:05:36Z")
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: high desert Posts: 2,181 **Send a message via Skype™ to flatlined** I still see it. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/5 "2012-12-17T01:41:50Z")
I see the Skype link thingy too. (on **flatlined** ’s posts, on the right-hand side at the top, as **Caught@Work** has described.) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/6 "2012-12-17T01:44:26Z")
I see it too. I have a Skype account myself, but (so far as I can see) there is no linkage between it and my account or postings on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/7 "2012-12-17T02:28:11Z")
Yup. I also noticed it earlier on one of **Bear Nenno’s** posts. I’ve also noticed that there are other messaging options listed in the same place on some people’s posts. I’d hazard a guess that it would only be active on Members’ accounts, since “Guests” don’t have things like location and post counts listed. It seems like a similar thing. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/8 "2012-12-17T03:11:45Z")
/me wonders if I have it also … ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/9 "2012-12-17T03:13:01Z")
Hm, the online now dot and ICQ, which I haven’t used in at least 10 years and honestly don’t even remember my log in information… ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/10 "2012-12-17T03:14:29Z")
I don’t see it on your post, **aruvqan** , but there is a little flower with one red petal (MSN? I remember this vaguely from long ago). There have to be settings in our profiles: I’m on Skype and AIM, but they don’t show in my posts. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/11 "2012-12-17T03:29:57Z")
In Skype, under Options \>\> Privacy, disable ‘Allow my online status to be shown on the web’, ‘Accept Skype browser cookies’, and ‘Allow Microsoft targeted ads, including use of Skype profile age and gender’. I don’t know which one(s) make the Skype links go away, but I don’t want any of them. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/12 "2012-12-17T04:17:45Z")
Thank you for that **TriPolar** I don’t see it anymore. I did just get a popup from Skype. ticking me off, this is. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-skype-account-get-linked-here/644242/13 "2012-12-19T00:55:38Z")
**flatlined** , I don’t see your Skype thingy anymore either.