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franky April 16 2010, 22:25:02 UTC
The driving revenue script is designed to add our affiliate ID to any outbound link that doesn't have one. This should not affect anyone, and is a transparent process. The last time we tried this the process did not have enough testing. We believe it's been thoroughly tested and works correctly now. If it's causing some sort of a problem, please open a support ticket so we can notify our engineers.

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foxfirefey April 16 2010, 22:41:30 UTC
Is there any chance that paid users and/or their content will be exempted from this script in the future?

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trixieleitz April 16 2010, 22:50:00 UTC
Do staff have any comments to make on the security concerns aired here?

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sundayave April 16 2010, 23:55:36 UTC
And could you also address these security concerns detailed here?

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ryf April 17 2010, 08:32:38 UTC
and is a transparent process

How so, if it was never mentioned anywhere?

Our definitions of "transparent" are obviously very different.

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soph April 19 2010, 18:27:00 UTC
They are, yes. What dnewhall meant by that is that it doesn't affect anyone who shouldn't be affected, and that the URL you get redirected to would have the same content as the URL that was originally there.

(of course, I believe nobody should be affected by this in the first place, but I wanted to at least make it clear what was meant)

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anti_aol April 17 2010, 17:18:23 UTC
It all depends on the definition of "it".

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anti_aol April 17 2010, 20:46:32 UTC
It was a Bill Clinton reference but I see I screwed it up: the correct version is, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

I was actually poking fun at LJ for their obvious lack of transparency and their unwillingness to speak openly and honestly even once they're called on this issue by their users - not parsing what you said in a negative way.

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newsbean April 21 2010, 22:02:51 UTC
NoScript won't work because it's being done through LJ's servers. So, unless you're blocking LJ (which turns off plenty of functions for paid users), it's not gonna do anything.

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trixieleitz April 22 2010, 01:02:04 UTC
You can, however, use Adblock to selectively block just that one script. I don't know if NoScript offers that degree of specificity.

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kahlan_amnell April 24 2010, 15:34:41 UTC
Except, if you block this script via NoScript you can't get links to work without right clicking to open a new window. Disabling it via the admin console works better in this case.

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anti_aol April 17 2010, 17:15:18 UTC
We believe it's been thoroughly tested and works correctly will make us money now, even on paid accounts like anti-aol's.

There, I fixed that for ya. But I won't always be around to do so, so try to be more honest in the future. The level of bullshit on LJ is reaching such dizzying proportions we're going to need shovels to dig through it soon.

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raanve April 17 2010, 17:38:07 UTC
I suppose my question would be, why tamper with user content (links included) at all? And considering how this didn't work the last time -- and how little communication from LJ users got on the issue -- why should we trust this "transparent process" now?

This sort of interaction from LJ doesn't exactly make me want to re-establish my paid account.

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