For those affected by LJ's link hijacking
The symptoms of this are long load times for LJ pages, especially friends pages, with the browser saying that it's waiting for a site called something like outboundlink.net (or .me, possibly others as well). And link information being hijacked to a third party (which you can't usually see).
There are two solutions.
Mine is to turn off JavaScript for LJ (using NoScript addon for Firefox -- or turn JS off altogether). This is fine for me, but does seem to disable the Rich Text editor and probably some other things I don't use.
The LJ way is to go to the admin console and paste in the following command: set opt_exclude_stats 1 -- this assumes that (a) they get that command handling right and (b) something else doesn't enable it in the future. But if you want JavaScript to work in LJ (for instance the Rich Text editor) that's probably the only way to do it.
(Note that just disabling JS for the nasty site but not LJ has the effect of disabling most clicks on links -- sometimes multiple (anywhere between 2 and 8 in my experience) clicks work, but I suspect it's random.)
Complaints should be addressed to the usual LJ support and complaints forums. Note that many of the people staffing those forums are volunteers, so please don't be abusive, it's not their fault.
Also see http://foxfirefey.livejournal.com/271537.html from which the console command was taken.
There are two solutions.
Mine is to turn off JavaScript for LJ (using NoScript addon for Firefox -- or turn JS off altogether). This is fine for me, but does seem to disable the Rich Text editor and probably some other things I don't use.
The LJ way is to go to the admin console and paste in the following command: set opt_exclude_stats 1 -- this assumes that (a) they get that command handling right and (b) something else doesn't enable it in the future. But if you want JavaScript to work in LJ (for instance the Rich Text editor) that's probably the only way to do it.
(Note that just disabling JS for the nasty site but not LJ has the effect of disabling most clicks on links -- sometimes multiple (anywhere between 2 and 8 in my experience) clicks work, but I suspect it's random.)
Complaints should be addressed to the usual LJ support and complaints forums. Note that many of the people staffing those forums are volunteers, so please don't be abusive, it's not their fault.
Also see http://foxfirefey.livejournal.com/271537.html from which the console command was taken.