Live journal is tracking you, and purposfully trying to hide it.

[kovucougar]

Long story short. And this gets me angry:

Livejournal has started tracking links to certain outbound site. They are watching you.

For full information, look here: http://caffeinepuppy.livejournal.com/214632.html

Comments

[direwolf23]

Fixed...hopefully. :P

[kovucougar]

Worse than I thought originally.

They're farming out the links to certain sites to an "outside" redirector. This redirector attaches their "referral ID" to e-commerce sites.

So whenever you clicked a Link to Amazon or someone else on an LJ page and bought an item? outboundlink.net (or maybe LJ) got a "referral bonus" for it.

So not only was this outboudnlink.net tracking your "commercial" activity, they were getting kickbacks for it.

[scottydfoxy]

Thanks for the information. I had not heard of this before your post.

[kovucougar]

Worse than I thought originally.

They're farming out the links to certain sites to an "outside" redirector. This redirector attaches their "referral ID" to e-commerce sites.

So whenever you clicked a Link to Amazon or someone else on an LJ page and bought an item? outboundlink.net (or maybe LJ) got a "referral bonus" for it.

So not only was this outboudnlink.net tracking your "commercial" activity, they were getting kickbacks for it.

[black_dragon_7]

Thank ya for pointing this out. Can't believe LJ started doing that. >:(

[kovucougar]

Worse than I thought originally.

They're farming out the links to certain sites to an "outside" redirector. This redirector attaches their "referral ID" to e-commerce sites.

So whenever you clicked a Link to Amazon or someone else on an LJ page and bought an item? outboundlink.net (or maybe LJ) got a "referral bonus" for it.

So not only was this outboudnlink.net tracking your "commercial" activity, they were getting kickbacks for it.

[kilelana]

Yikes.
Thanks, mate. You saved my tail.

I'm a little annoyed LJ did this let alone secretively.

[kovucougar]

Worse than I thought originally.

They're farming out the links to certain sites to an "outside" redirector. This redirector attaches their "referral ID" to e-commerce sites.

So whenever you clicked a Link to Amazon or someone else on an LJ page and bought an item? outboundlink.net (or maybe LJ) got a "referral bonus" for it.

So not only was this outboudnlink.net tracking your "commercial" activity, they were getting kickbacks for it.

[furkitfox]

Fixed!

Man, think of all the penis LJ must have seen thanks to me. xD

[kovucougar]

Worse than I thought originally.

They're farming out the links to certain sites to an "outside" redirector. This redirector attaches their "referral ID" to e-commerce sites.

So whenever you clicked a Link to Amazon or someone else on an LJ page and bought an item? outboundlink.net (or maybe LJ) got a "referral bonus" for it.

So not only was this outboudnlink.net tracking your "commercial" activity, they were getting kickbacks for it.