Is LJ Stealing You Affilate Money?

[sireesanwar]

LiveJournal Accused Of Redirecting Links, Swiping Affiliate Fees
from the trust-issues dept

You may or may not remember, many years ago, that one of the "tricks" used by adware was to hijack affiliate fees. Basically, the way it would work is that the adware would watch where you were clicking, and if the URL was for an online store that had an

Comments

[annabella]

Thanks for this. I thought I had a virus again and was getting ready to start researching it. Stupid commercial crap.

[sireesanwar]

You're welcome. Yeah LJ really sucks sometimes.

[cila81]

Wow! I don't know what to think of that really. Thanks for the heads up! :)

[sireesanwar]

I'm thinking they are stealing. Now if they set it up so you got credit to your email or even got LJ credits for the links you use it would be one thing but the money is going into there pockets and that is stealing.