LJ and their hijinks aka url and revenue highjacking
I copied this from another person's blog about LJ. The person is Atunmbral on the dreamwidth blogging site.
The problem is that this process involves sending information about these URLs to an outside company as soon as you mouse over the link. Every link you mouse over gets sent. Which means that an enterprising script kiddie with some time on his or her hands could pretty easily intercept the 'GET' requests that the script sends to the outside site, and would know what people linked in f-locked or private entries. Depending on the entry and the URL, the link could have other account information associated with it, which makes scripts like these perfect backdoors if you really want to screw with someone and you know a little code.
The good news is, there's a partial solution. To get the script to stop showing up on LJ pages when you view them, go to the LJ admin console (bet you didn't even know that existed!) http://www.livejournal.com/admin/c…
and copy/paste this line into the box:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
Then hit 'execute'. This takes advantage of a loophole in an opt-out LJ included for a previous ad-tracking script, and also opts you out of the script I've been talking about above. It won't be active for you anymore, when you're looking at your own or someone else's journal, but it will be active for other people looking at your journal who haven't set the opt-out for themselves.
The problem is that this process involves sending information about these URLs to an outside company as soon as you mouse over the link. Every link you mouse over gets sent. Which means that an enterprising script kiddie with some time on his or her hands could pretty easily intercept the 'GET' requests that the script sends to the outside site, and would know what people linked in f-locked or private entries. Depending on the entry and the URL, the link could have other account information associated with it, which makes scripts like these perfect backdoors if you really want to screw with someone and you know a little code.
The good news is, there's a partial solution. To get the script to stop showing up on LJ pages when you view them, go to the LJ admin console (bet you didn't even know that existed!) http://www.livejournal.com/admin/c…
and copy/paste this line into the box:
set opt_exclude_stats 1
Then hit 'execute'. This takes advantage of a loophole in an opt-out LJ included for a previous ad-tracking script, and also opts you out of the script I've been talking about above. It won't be active for you anymore, when you're looking at your own or someone else's journal, but it will be active for other people looking at your journal who haven't set the opt-out for themselves.
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