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

Re: Dunno

[cdave]

Sending data from all mouseovered links in locked posts to a third party is a bit off. Especially as they should have learned from last time they did this.

Re: Dunno

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed.

Re: Dunno

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yup - it's not that they're doing it, it's that they did it in a hidden and particularly stupid way, which was unpopular, and all they learned from that was that they should be less stupid but no more open next time they try it.

Compare this with Metafilter, who replace all Amazon affiliate links with their own, but are upfront about it and discussed it with the users first.