I had a paid livejournal account for a few years. It ran out recently, and apropos of happenings over the last little while I decided I wasn't going to renew it. I in fact decided this many months ago, but that's by the by.

By virtue of this charming fucking piece of assfuckery, does anyone reading this actually use this crossposting feature? Yes ( Read more... )

Please to be stopping the bullshit already.

Wake up and smell the BO of the people fleeing your shady business practices.

Return of the linkjack code"The way it does this is an enormous security risk. What the script does is wait until you mouse over a link. Then, it activates and sends information about that URL to a company called outboundlink. ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Aside from compeltely abusing the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' philosophy ( Read more... )