LJ are you trying to drive people away from your site?

[lirion]

For those who haven't already heard: Links to about 150 e-commerce sites that users post to their LiveJournals are being redirected through a 3rd party website. These redirected links also open in a new window.

Among other things, this redirection strips any existing affiliate links and inserts a different affiliate link.

Charming behaviour.

I have a Dreamwidth acocunt, I think it's time that it saw some more use.

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[elder-goddess.livejournal.com]

Having followed a number of (LJ post) links, I eventually came to:

http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/585577.html - "[the perennially hardworking and non-evil LJ staffer] marta has posted some information saying the code was supposed to add "this link came via lj" affiliate info to non affiliated links -- which makes a lot more sense (and sounds thankfully less sinister) than hijacking people's links and taking them to advertisers, but didn't work as expected. It's still being scrapped. *** EDIT ****** EDIT *** The code should be gone now."

For all its ever-increasing fuckups, LJ is still the only decent interactive blogging site out there IMTAO. I have no intention of leaving; I'm going to keep my paid account going, too. And I won't read anyone's posts on any other so-called 'social networking' site, because the like of FarceBork is just!plain!evil! and further is having a bad effect on the several of my RL friends who let themselves be sheep-memed into joining it - namely, where they were once interesting bloggers who made frequent lengthy posts, they've now reduced their online lives to shallow soundbites (fontbites?), and I only know about those because other friends tell me 'oh yeah, I saw something about that on ___'s FB account'. Oh well, at least my foolish FarceBorkers and I are having more phone conversations these days :-S