Outbound links got you down?
LJ is apparently at it again with hijacking of outbound links. It's a hamfisted enough effort that I actually noticed it in Firefox. At the bottom of every page, every time I loaded my Friends Page, I saw a thing that said, "Transferring data from outboundlinks.me" and it never really went away. It was apparently only supposed to show up when you moused over a link, but for some reason it stayed up on my page and things like that bug me, so here's what I learned about how to make it go away.
One, you can go to the LJ console (http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/) and paste this in to the box:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
This may or may not actually solve the problem for the future, as it's apparently some legacy flag, but I set it just in case.
Second, if you're running AdBlockPlus, and you should be, open the preferences under the Firefox Tools menu, then add these two filters:
http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.js
outboundlink.*
Restart Firefox once you've made the changes.
I found all this info with some basic google searches, but I thought I'd consolidate what I learned and share with you. Mostly the info is from here: http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/87881.html and here: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_lounge/
I'm not quite ready for the hassle of installing noscripts, but it's on my radar now.
Hope this helps some of you out there.
One, you can go to the LJ console (http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/) and paste this in to the box:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
This may or may not actually solve the problem for the future, as it's apparently some legacy flag, but I set it just in case.
Second, if you're running AdBlockPlus, and you should be, open the preferences under the Firefox Tools menu, then add these two filters:
http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.js
outboundlink.*
Restart Firefox once you've made the changes.
I found all this info with some basic google searches, but I thought I'd consolidate what I learned and share with you. Mostly the info is from here: http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/87881.html and here: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_lounge/
I'm not quite ready for the hassle of installing noscripts, but it's on my radar now.
Hope this helps some of you out there.