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LJ skeeviness
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.
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.