Privacy Alert: LiveJournal Tracking Outbound Links!

[ineffabelle]

"LiveJournal has started snooping on outbound clicks, sliently redirecting outbound links through "outboundlink.net." This is enabled even for paid users, and the opt-out is so hidden/out of the way that what they're doing is simply unconscionable."

Apparently it's not just snooping, it's an attempt to hijack affiliate programs so someone else (outboundlink.net?) gets the money.

The way to get rid of this is:

1. Open the Admin Console at http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/
2. Execute the following command: set opt_exclude_stats 1

Thanks to shatterstripes for the heads up!

Comments

[ashliana.livejournal.com]

I appreciate how simple you made it for your readers to fix this. Thanks! :)