Comments | krinndnz: PSA: Livejournal Outbound Link Redirection

krinndnz

PSA: Livejournal Outbound Link Redirection

Mar 04, 2010 15:05

Livejournal apparently has begun redirecting a subset of outgoing links through an affiliate-revenue-generating alteration site. This is not necessarily bad, but if you think that LJ can be trusted unconditionally, given its track record, I have some sub-prime mortgage-backed securities to sell you. See posts by shatterstripes(link), ysengrin(link), and caffeinepuppy(link) for ( Read more... )

internet, cynical, retransmission

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baxil March 4 2010, 23:27:01 UTC

Thanks for the signal boost - might want to double-check your post HTML though; looks like there's some text missing due to a bad A tag.

krinndnz March 4 2010, 23:30:23 UTC

Thank you, I was having some difficulty closing those. Anyhow. Fuckers! I am surlified regarding this, especially with more reading. Gonna try to comment on more signal-boost areas.

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krinndnz March 4 2010, 23:41:07 UTC

DW keeps sounding better.

In which Mass Treble breaks the mood: masstreble March 4 2010, 23:49:27 UTC

"Trying new things." Heh heh heh. That choice of phrase makes it sound like they're trying that one Thai place down the street, or finally letting their partner tie them up like they've been talking about for months.

SIGH if only~

Re: In which Mass Treble breaks the mood: postrodent March 5 2010, 00:45:58 UTC

*wag* That is hilarious.

If anyone whispered the words "driving revenue" into my ear during sex, I hope I'd kick them out of bed. But perhaps that's unfair, I once murmured "patriarchy" to someone in a moment of passion, and I was rewarded rather than punished for my bad behavior. :>

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masstreble March 4 2010, 23:43:09 UTC

This isn't the last time I'm going to use the LJ console to do something, but I wanted to delay that for as long as I could. Honestly, by now I thought I was going to have to ban somebody, and I would prefer it to this sort of nonsense. You know that I stopped using Windows for this kind of stupid system upkeep?

Oh, well. I haven't had to open a Dreamwidth account yet, as everybody mirrors their posts.

Nngh... How bad is it for LJ that they're doing this? I mean, without letting us know about it first?

krinndnz March 4 2010, 23:46:49 UTC

It's quite bad.

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krinndnz March 10 2010, 01:07:53 UTC

It is a poorly considered thing in many dimensions, prone to chapping the hides of us mere users.

mas info nebris March 5 2010, 02:51:15 UTC

http://caffeinepuppy.livejournal.com/214632.html

Re: mas info krinndnz March 10 2010, 01:07:30 UTC

Seen, updated. Cheers.