Boosting the signal
Apr. 22nd, 2010 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakI am atrocious at rehashing writeups of internet skullduggery, so I'll just post the following links.
Via commenters over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge:
http://antumbral.dreamwidth.org/164338.html?format=light
http://shatterstripes.livejournal.com/1080337.html?format=light
antumbral's post is a better read for those of us, like myself, who don't deeply grok code. shatterstripes is better for the programming-savvy.
Basically, if I were to, say, post a link to Amanda's Own Confections*, the excellent dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free chocolatier from whom we bought Easter bunnies for the Zodlings this year, and did not have an affiliate code embedded in the link, allowing me to get a tiny kickback for every person who clicked - LJ can and will hack the link so *they* get a kickback. They've done this before, in a slightly shadier way. Links to posts on that prior code attempt are in the above posts and the comments to them.
I do not approve of this sort of behavior. They aren't even announcing that they're doing it. If LJ didn't have fairly savvy users who noticed the code in their own links being changed when they were doing... ::hand-wave:: programmer thingies.... and other users who noticed that clicking on the doctored links set off their anti-spyware programs.... We wouldn't know.
There's been a fair bit of things LJ's done in the last few years that I've taken a dim view of. So, I am dusting off the Dreamwidth invite codenagaina_ryuuoh kindly sent me back in... ::cough:: June**... and setting up over there. I'm not giving up LJ. I know plenty of excellent people here. But I am doing a backup of my LJ to DW, as soon as I have time, and I won't be renewing my paid subscription to LJ.
*Please google them and send business their way. Even if you don't have any allergies, they make really excellent chocolate. The taste and the mouth-feel are top quality, and the price isn't bad.
**I apologize for not using it sooner, Myr, as I'm sure you had other friends looking for codes. It wasn't that I'm ungrateful, so much as that procrastinating is my greatest besetting sin. ^_^;;
Via commenters over at
copperbadge: http://antumbral.dreamwidth.org/164338.html?format=light
http://shatterstripes.livejournal.com/1080337.html?format=light
antumbral's post is a better read for those of us, like myself, who don't deeply grok code. shatterstripes is better for the programming-savvy.Basically, if I were to, say, post a link to Amanda's Own Confections*, the excellent dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free chocolatier from whom we bought Easter bunnies for the Zodlings this year, and did not have an affiliate code embedded in the link, allowing me to get a tiny kickback for every person who clicked - LJ can and will hack the link so *they* get a kickback. They've done this before, in a slightly shadier way. Links to posts on that prior code attempt are in the above posts and the comments to them.
I do not approve of this sort of behavior. They aren't even announcing that they're doing it. If LJ didn't have fairly savvy users who noticed the code in their own links being changed when they were doing... ::hand-wave:: programmer thingies.... and other users who noticed that clicking on the doctored links set off their anti-spyware programs.... We wouldn't know.
There's been a fair bit of things LJ's done in the last few years that I've taken a dim view of. So, I am dusting off the Dreamwidth invite code
nagaina_ryuuoh kindly sent me back in... ::cough:: June**... and setting up over there. I'm not giving up LJ. I know plenty of excellent people here. But I am doing a backup of my LJ to DW, as soon as I have time, and I won't be renewing my paid subscription to LJ.*Please google them and send business their way. Even if you don't have any allergies, they make really excellent chocolate. The taste and the mouth-feel are top quality, and the price isn't bad.
**I apologize for not using it sooner, Myr, as I'm sure you had other friends looking for codes. It wasn't that I'm ungrateful, so much as that procrastinating is my greatest besetting sin. ^_^;;
