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Mar 04, 2010 19:36

So, I know I never post on here anymore. But LJ has done something HUGE and FUCKED-UP, and you should be aware of it.

Here are the details. To make a long story short, they have subscribed to a service that finds certain keywords in links ("Buy" and "free" are two that have been noticed) and causes those links to redirect to certain commercial ( Read more... )

psa, lj fail

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ohmygodmuffin March 5 2010, 01:54:57 UTC
Ughhh thank you for the heads up! LJ, why so ridiculous?

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dorian_is_i March 5 2010, 03:42:15 UTC
This post has more information, and is also regularly being updated.

It looks like there was some kind of error and the code is doing something it's not meant to? They're going to pull it.

Of course, as the writer of that post points out...what was the code meant to do, then?

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