PSA: LJ is tinkering with outgoing links. Here's how to fix it.

[eclective]

Since I haven't seen this elsewhere on my friends list, shatterstripes mentions a sneaky little piece of LJ ad trickery and links to a simple admin-console fix.This affects all accounts, including paid ones: by default, outbound links to certain sites are being pushed through a site that generates revenue for LJ, and also breaks any links that partly pattern-

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[luinied]

Ugh. I had not heard of this, and it looks like it hasn't made the usual communities yet - maybe I will post it there. (I, of course, opted out of statistics collection via the admin console quite a while ago.)

[eclective]

This was the first time I'd heard of that particular admin console fix, I believe. (Unless I had heard about it before, implemented it, and then forgot. That's also likely.)

[krinndnz]

Also signalboosting - glad to see it spreading.

[eclective]

Awesome, thanks.