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The intended purpose was to add affiliate links to links that do not have affiliate codes attached. I would totally do that if I ran LiveJournal and it makes perfect sense.
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What does that have to do with it? If I put to a link to "ifreakinghateebay.com" would it be okay if they rediected it to ebay? No, of course not.
Oh, it's clearly broken, it's just the comment I was replying to asserted that anything with the word bay in it triggers the breakage. This seems to be unlikely. The fact that the behavior was broken and links unrelated to ebay were being redirected to ebay was already well established by that point in the thread. Understanding which links are affected by this issue and the scope of the problem might be relevant. In…
!!"eBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true
!!"CrittersByTheBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true
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What is Amazon going to do about a Russian company?
Cancel their affiliate account and refuse to pay any earnings from their referrals?
Ok serious question... What do people feel about url shorteners doing this? Also, what about free twitter clients - as a mechanism for monetization?
If you read the whole thing (links and all) you'll find this nugget of a comment: Ooh, wait, I can do one better: I'm telling Amazon. (Anybody with me? A plurality of e-mail speaks louder than one.) This is in strict violation of the Operation Agreement for the Associate program, which forbids attempts to hide links, links being processed through redirects, failure to disclose use of the Affiliate program, and tamper…
Amazon links on that site get changed to point to rads.stackoverflow.com which sounds like it violates the TOS.
I only ask because I've been slowly puttering around the idea of creating a little website as a side project, and I was considering "borrowing" this idea from them (though I was going to preserve affiliate ids from users, if they were entered).
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They've disabled it. http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=106017...
They've claimed to disable it, but it's still active. (Just click the "glutenfreebay" link in the OP.)
This has the taste of a troll, but I mean it as a sincere question: Why are people still on LiveJournal? I get that they more-or-less invented the blog as we know it, but what do they bring to table today? Doesn't pretty much any other free blog service offer a superior experience?
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It was the backlash that was "unexpected". As usual.
When will companies learn to stop lying to their users and just issue real apologies?
From what I've read that seems a possibility.