Livejournal are adding affiliate IDs to your links

[andrewducker]

Go here for details on what it does and how to turn it off.

Thanks to marrog for pointing this one out.

Comments

Dunno

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

LJ has to make its money. I don't object to e.g. amazon links making a buck for a free service.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> It had no way of distinguishing amazon.com from fucklikeacrazyamazon.com, or target.com from crossbowandtarget.com

That's really, really, REALLY shit code. I mean, it's about a single extra character to the regexp to check that.

(And heh, some people paid for it! ;)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd seen it before, but not explained as clearly :(

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. I have followed the instructions and "executed."

[dreema.livejournal.com]

thanks