LJ skeeviness

[solarbird]

So LJ is being skeevy and stripping your referral links for online retailers and substituting their own. This is true for Amazon and several other retailers, so instead of you getting your micropayment for referring someone to a retailer for a purchase they get it instead. I hear that now that it's been found they're supposedly going to stop, but jeez, guys, skeevy or what? Also violates the fuck out of Amazon's affiliate TOS, which matters because LJ has to be an affiliate to be able to receive the moneys, and so is bound by it.

Anyway, be aware. Dreamwidth isn't doing this shit, so if you don't have a DW account, you could get one, mirror posts, and tell people to click on the DW link instead of the LJ link. Also, the stripping doesn't work if you use TinyURL or bit.ly or the other URL shortening services, so you could just use those instead.

Comments

[denelian.livejournal.com]

it also doesn't work if you right-click-open-in-new-tab/window.

or, at least, that has been my experience testing/looking.


also-also, i read in one of the customer-support-type Comms that LJ didn't mean for "this" to happen. that it was "accidental" and that they were just trying to *add* themselves.
i... don't know.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Is DW still doing the invite code thing? If so, and if you [not solarbird of course, but people reading comments]'re reading this going "hmmm I'd like to try this DW thing", I probably have about eleventeen-jundred of them, so let me know and I'll send one.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing this out. I posted a comment to the FAQ link.

BTW - I love the CD!