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LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Re: LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Post by swombat »

Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs = dubious, but just about defensible

Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs AND replacing them with your own links = unacceptably sleazy

Stripping affiliate links from paid blogs and replacing them with your own links = outright offensive? Extra serving of fail?

What's next? Inserting porn ads into people's blogs?

Re: LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Post by timmorgan »

Willie_Dynamite wrote: post #3

They've disabled it. http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=106017...

"The issues you describe were caused by some new LiveJournal code which produced these unexpected effects."

I'm not sure how any of that could really and truthfully be "unexpected."

Re: LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Post by ramchip »

jonknee wrote: post #4

http://drivingrevenue.com/ was the firm running the redirector... Looks shady as hell.

Driving Revenue is full service affiliate marketing solution comprised of online marketers, developers and analysts. Our mission is to equip site owners with a variety of powerful and innovative tools designed to maximize their online ventures. We use cutting-edge solutions that provide a compressive and customized approach to your Internet environment. In short: we help you monetize your existing traffic.

Well, it sounds like they leverage core skillsets and world-class team synergy to provide clients worldwide with robust, scalable, modern turnkey implementations of flexible, personalized, cutting-edge Internet-enabled e-business application product suite e-solution architectures that accelerate response to customer and real-world market demands and reliably adapt to evolving technology needs, seamlessly and efficiently integrating and synchronizing with their existing legacy infrastructure, enhancing the e-readiness capabilities of their e-commerce production environments across the enterprise while giving them a critical competitive advantage and taking them to the next level.

Joke aside I do seriously wonder how they came up with the "compressive and customized approach to your Internet environment"...

Re: LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Post by barrkel »

swombat wrote: post #2

Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs = dubious, but just about defensible Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs AND replacing them with your own links = unacceptably sleazy Stripping affiliate links from paid blogs and replacing them with your own links = outright offensive? Extra serving of fail? What's next? Inserting porn ads into people's blogs?

It's even worse - not only is it stripping links, it's often actually breaking them. The www.glutenfreebay.com example actually should redirect to glutenfreebay.blogspot.com, but instead it's heading to ebay.com.

Re: LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links

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Post by Legion »

timmorgan wrote: post #5
Willie_Dynamite wrote: post #3

They've disabled it. http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=106017...

"The issues you describe were caused by some new LiveJournal code which produced these unexpected effects." I'm not sure how any of that could really and truthfully be "unexpected."

It was the backlash that was "unexpected". As usual.
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