briarwood: (SW Yoda Pissed)
Morgan Briarwood ([personal profile] briarwood) wrote2010-03-05 09:42 am

Signal Boost

Signal boost:

Livejournal is hijacking links posted in journal entries. No, seriously. I am not kidding.

More info here.

Why am I still surprised by the depths to which LJ will sink?

Anyone want a Dreamwidth invite? I have several.
mab_browne: Text icon - Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal (Firefly - betrayal)

[personal profile] mab_browne 2010-03-05 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
So at best, LJ was sending links through a third party with possibly the idea of claiming affiliate link status to links that didn't already have it, and never thought to check how and whether the code worked as promised. Which it obviously didn't. Greedy, stupid and shoddy. I'm going to sleep on it, but I think this is the last straw for my full participation in LJ. Keep the LJ, sure, it's a regrettable necessity, but no more of my own content is going on their servers.