Over in ruljautonews we have a translation of igrick's latest entry where he details some upcoming changes to advertising on LJ. Specifically, a modified form of the self-promo block that's already available on the Cyrillic homepage will be made available to all journal owners, with all proceeds from that block going to the journal owner. And buried in the ( Read more... )

I've noticed that ad calls get my age and sex even if though I have my birthday set to not display. As far as I can tell, this is against the privacy policy, which states:
If you have a Plus account or are a Basic or Early Adopter account viewing a Plus account's journal or other content, LiveJournal shares your voluntarily-provided public profile ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say that the new Terms of Service about ad blocking - aka those discussed here - have been implemented.

I also wanted to mention the lj_biz post about data-gathering via Hitbox version 2.0 . Just *mention* it. I'm pretty blah about the whole thing as it is now so I don't think it's really worth discussing it. But, although there is ( Read more... )

Source:

Employ tactics and/or technologies to prevent the full and complete delivery or display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Making journal style changes, customizations, or overrides that effectively block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on a Sponsored+ ( Read more... )

Announcement from brad in lj_support regarding the TOS:

TOS Change --- whoops ( Read more... )

there was a code push yesterday.

the new ToS and Privacy Policy are live. we haven't been notified yet.

ideally, they would have been pushed live and then immediately followed by a news post. or the other way around.

why does everything seem to be done backwards?

I feel kind of proud of myself; I'm pretty sure, given who watches this community, and what we've been talking about, that parts of these sections of the new TOS were made specifically with us in mind. Remember, they were watching so they could do a better job of giving people what they want and do the right thing. And that means outlawing us! ( Read more... )

new privacy policy.
edit: ads for my lj/portal.
new tos. however, this diff makes it kinda hard to see exact changes.

Danga Interactive, Inc. is now LiveJournal, Inc. i guess the dangaroo has been replaced with frank. how sad. :\