This helpful post is for you, my Livejournaler friends!
ETA: Did you know I am a ditz? It is true! I had you setting the wrong value for the opt-out, it should be 1 and not 0!
As many of you well know, I am a filthy seditious Dreamwidth supporter (who totally supports your preference not to be). However, due to outdated ingrained habits and connections, information about LiveJournal things sometimes just ends up appearing in my brain.
Anyway, I come to you bearing a possibly helpful tidbit in the way of an opt-out you can use in the admin console:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
I tell you this because LiveJournal has implemented (another) affiliate link adding script; that is, for all the links on LiveJournal (yes, even for paid users and on their journals), the script tries to determine if the link goes to an website that has an affiliate sales program, and if so and there isn't an existing affiliate ID, the script adds one to the outgoing link through clever hijinks. The opt out (most likely unintentionally) keeps the script from being included. (You could also add http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.js and outboundlink.* to your adblocker.)
Now, there isn't any particularly pressing reason for you to opt out; if everything with the script goes right, you probably won't notice it. However, it's an unnecessary script to your LiveJournal experience and sometimes the script might not run as smoothly, or maybe your not-so-powerful computer doesn't need to compute all that extra work, or maybe the external sources it tells all the links you're hovering over and what page you are on will be laggy or you have a slow internet connection, and this could adversely affect your browsing. Or maybe you just don't want every link you hover over or click to be reported to a third party. You can't take it off of your journal for other people looking at it, but you could make it so that you don't have to load it yourself, and hopefully the opt-out will keep working.
As many of you well know, I am a filthy seditious Dreamwidth supporter (who totally supports your preference not to be). However, due to outdated ingrained habits and connections, information about LiveJournal things sometimes just ends up appearing in my brain.
Anyway, I come to you bearing a possibly helpful tidbit in the way of an opt-out you can use in the admin console:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
I tell you this because LiveJournal has implemented (another) affiliate link adding script; that is, for all the links on LiveJournal (yes, even for paid users and on their journals), the script tries to determine if the link goes to an website that has an affiliate sales program, and if so and there isn't an existing affiliate ID, the script adds one to the outgoing link through clever hijinks. The opt out (most likely unintentionally) keeps the script from being included. (You could also add http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.js and outboundlink.* to your adblocker.)
Now, there isn't any particularly pressing reason for you to opt out; if everything with the script goes right, you probably won't notice it. However, it's an unnecessary script to your LiveJournal experience and sometimes the script might not run as smoothly, or maybe your not-so-powerful computer doesn't need to compute all that extra work, or maybe the external sources it tells all the links you're hovering over and what page you are on will be laggy or you have a slow internet connection, and this could adversely affect your browsing. Or maybe you just don't want every link you hover over or click to be reported to a third party. You can't take it off of your journal for other people looking at it, but you could make it so that you don't have to load it yourself, and hopefully the opt-out will keep working.