"Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way."
Translation: We're still after that sweet, sweet low hanging fruit affiliate revenue, quite possibly changing the links that you paid users have in your entries since there's no good way to separate them out from the freeloaders on all of those friends pages everybody is viewing, and quite possible doing that really really hijinxy thing where we only change a link's location after you click it so that you have no idea where it's actually going to go. But this time we'll do the due diligence that we should have done the first time to make sure we're not violating our affiliate agreement with places like Amazon, and hopefully this time we won't ruin regular links that have nothing to do with affiliate collecting, and maybe this time we'll bother to tell our Support team what's going on before it happens!
I guess the way to implement it that dodges my sad, sad description is to not do it using Javascript, but to do it in the HTML cleaner code if the entry being cleaned is made by a free user (and being posted in an unpaid community).
That instance has much better control over what happens (since it's actually using an HTML tokenizer as far as I know), won't be double dipping from the entries of paid users, won't hang up people's browsers, and won't rely on tricky changes-the-link-before-you-click it tricks.
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Translation: We're still after that sweet, sweet low hanging fruit affiliate revenue, quite possibly changing the links that you paid users have in your entries since there's no good way to separate them out from the freeloaders on all of those friends pages everybody is viewing, and quite possible doing that really really hijinxy thing where we only change a link's location after you click it so that you have no idea where it's actually going to go. But this time we'll do the due diligence that we should have done the first time to make sure we're not violating our affiliate agreement with places like Amazon, and hopefully this time we won't ruin regular links that have nothing to do with affiliate collecting, and maybe this time we'll bother to tell our Support team what's going on before it happens!
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That instance has much better control over what happens (since it's actually using an HTML tokenizer as far as I know), won't be double dipping from the entries of paid users, won't hang up people's browsers, and won't rely on tricky changes-the-link-before-you-click it tricks.
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That is indeed what it did last time I looked at the code. (Which is, admittedly, several years ago.)
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