Hey, LJ staff, no word on you lot introducing a new ~driving revenue~ script that redirects people's links through outboundlink.net AGAIN? I would like an explanation and why does it affect EVERY LINK EVER on EVERY LJ PAGE EVER on only HOVERING the damn link? I'm confused, and it scared the hell out of me as I had no idea what were all those scripts loaded on my flist, I thought someone had spammed a community.
I've already blocked it obvs. PEOPLE, GET FIREFOX AND ADBLOCK AND NOSCRIPT, THEN GO AROUND BLOCKING EVERY NON-USEFUL LJ SCRIPT. There you go, done my bit!
Re: Deleting your comments right after you post them like the little coward you aremarahmarieApril 19 2010, 19:21:45 UTC
Here's what ladysunflow (my dear little sunflower!) wrote this time seconds before deleting it, like the little coward (he/she?) is:
Subject: Re: READ. I have read that, blinsided little marie. I'm not sure however if you've read the two first sentences I quoted in the comment above. Let me quote again: We'd already been running in the red from month to month, and the past few months have seen some additional expenses over and above the usual.
Kisses to you and your DW holy grail.Get this through your pretty and quite useless little head, sun, 'cause I know you're still reading these comments
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I'm not the one who thought it was so serious that I deleted all her comments (assuming this was a "she/her"). She was. Damned if I know why she did that.
On running smoothly "lately"? Indeed not...anti_aolApril 19 2010, 03:49:52 UTC
Try years. It's never, ever run "smooothly" that I can recall, if by "smoothly" one means 99.8% or 99.9% or better uptime, with no sudden outages. And slow? Oh dear lord, like molasses on a winter day...and the crap they've been pulling this year alone, like when they deleted *all* of our tags on *all* of our journals at once without telling anybody and I had to take like a week to re-write every tag into every post *by hand* a few months ago (I finished re-writing tag links just before the first iteration of this link redirecting stuff started, so it was all for nothing, since I moved my content right after that, anyway)?
Some crap about how the + signs in the tag URLs weren't semantic enough, and wouldn't pass W3C spec. Jeez. But tell us first? Give us a heads-up? Nope. Too much trouble. Believe me, no matter where I had moved my blogs to, even just to my own hard drive, I would not miss this crap, no matter what. I was trying to be patient because I did like it here but enough's enough, I suppose.
Re: On running smoothly "lately"? Indeed not...marahmarieApril 19 2010, 18:29:10 UTC
I'm not trolling! If you had a tag with more than one word in it on your journal like http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/tag/how+to+uninstall+aol it's now written out as http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/tag/how%20to%20uninstall%20aol. Copy and paste your own multiple word tags into Notepad to see, or just watch how one of your tags is written out now - oh, wait, never mind, now I see your tags are quite simple just one word each. I forgive your ignorance in that case, and I forgive you for calling me a troll, as well.
You might want to grab a dictionary because, transparent? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Transparent means stating a policy flat out.
That's not the only meaning; I think he was going for meaning 7 on the first result of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transparent . (The sense that encryption of an SSL/HTTPS connection is transparent, for example -- you just enter https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml and the fact that the connection is encrypted is not visible to you; the encryption is "transparent" in this sense.)
I've been on a slow connection in Africa for the last few days, and this new script has been slowing my access to Livejournal to a crawl at best. So I'm afraid it is untrue to say that it is not affecting anyone.
I'll grant that it no longer grabs random unrelated URLs due to sloppy text-matching, and the part where the commerce site stores the affiliate tag and redirects to the original unaltered URL so that it looks like nothing has happened is a nice touch, for some values of “nice”.
However, last I checked, it would still divulge to a third party information about every link that is moused over by anyone, even for paid/permanent users, and even for protected or private posts. I daresay that some people would consider themselves affected by that
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It was causing me to be unable to visit links, even within LJ. (I could not go to comments from my friends page.) This is because I use NoScript, and since I hadn't been notified there was a new script, I didn't know to allow it.
When I did test out allowing it, it made links load much more slowly. I have disabled it via the admin console, and would appreciate it if you let people opt out of this unnecessary script via a more direct approach.
It has been causing problems for me, as I found myself having to click on my links 2 - 3 times before they actually loaded properly, and was why this whole script thing was brought to my attention in the first place.
I don't like it, which is why I've just run the opt out mentioned in this post and it seems to be solving the link lag problem. (For now.)
And from the comment replies, I see that I'm not the only one who got affected. To say the least, it's not pleasant - especially not for those who are paying money to gain a better LJ experience.
This comment. Same here. When I started to have this problem, I decided to pay attention and then I noticed the "outboundlink.me" on my Firefox tab.
Then I made a google search to find a solution for this annoying problem. I found that post and I ran the opt out mentioned on it. I think that solved my problem.
I've already blocked it obvs. PEOPLE, GET FIREFOX AND ADBLOCK AND NOSCRIPT, THEN GO AROUND BLOCKING EVERY NON-USEFUL LJ SCRIPT. There you go, done my bit!
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I have read that, blinsided little marie. I'm not sure however if you've read the two first sentences I quoted in the comment above. Let me quote again: We'd already been running in the red from month to month, and the past few months have seen some additional expenses over and above the usual.
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Some crap about how the + signs in the tag URLs weren't semantic enough, and wouldn't pass W3C spec. Jeez. But tell us first? Give us a heads-up? Nope. Too much trouble. Believe me, no matter where I had moved my blogs to, even just to my own hard drive, I would not miss this crap, no matter what. I was trying to be patient because I did like it here but enough's enough, I suppose.
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Again. READ.
http://community.livejournal.com/as_massive_tool/57477.html
If I was trolling, why would you be the only person accusing me of that?
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Transparent means stating a policy flat out.
That's not the only meaning; I think he was going for meaning 7 on the first result of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transparent . (The sense that encryption of an SSL/HTTPS connection is transparent, for example -- you just enter https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml and the fact that the connection is encrypted is not visible to you; the encryption is "transparent" in this sense.)
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However, last I checked, it would still divulge to a third party information about every link that is moused over by anyone, even for paid/permanent users, and even for protected or private posts. I daresay that some people would consider themselves affected by that ( ... )
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When I did test out allowing it, it made links load much more slowly. I have disabled it via the admin console, and would appreciate it if you let people opt out of this unnecessary script via a more direct approach.
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I don't like it, which is why I've just run the opt out mentioned in this post and it seems to be solving the link lag problem. (For now.)
And from the comment replies, I see that I'm not the only one who got affected. To say the least, it's not pleasant - especially not for those who are paying money to gain a better LJ experience.
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Then I made a google search to find a solution for this annoying problem. I found that post and I ran the opt out mentioned on it. I think that solved my problem.
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