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What is up with LJ today? I keep seeing links like this that fail to open comment pages or links: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&drKey=1111&loc=http (and then the link address).
Speaking of being pissed off at authority, did you hear that the Supreme Court threw out the Wal-Mart discrimination case - not because of merit or lack thereof, but because the "class-action status – potentially involving hundreds of thousands of female workers – was too large."
Um, isn't that what a class-action suit is all about? Largeness? With this precedent, I can see corporations planning to market crappy or dangerous products simply marketing it far and wide enough that they can't get sued.
Fuck the Supreme Court. Also:
Chris
Speaking of being pissed off at authority, did you hear that the Supreme Court threw out the Wal-Mart discrimination case - not because of merit or lack thereof, but because the "class-action status – potentially involving hundreds of thousands of female workers – was too large."
Um, isn't that what a class-action suit is all about? Largeness? With this precedent, I can see corporations planning to market crappy or dangerous products simply marketing it far and wide enough that they can't get sued.
Fuck the Supreme Court. Also:
Chris
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As citizens of the U.S. still living in our native country, we're pretty much fucked.
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Like all linkjacking services, it's a scam that adds nothing but waste and annoyance to your internet experience, and you should boycott any and all sites that use it, on principle.
Where are you seeing it?
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I'm seeing it on LiveJournal! Almost all the outside links, even the "reply" links go through vglink today. Ugh. I don't want to leave my blog platform after so many years....
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Which, uh, tells me that livejournal isn't the problem.
Are you surfing via a proxy? Proxies can rewrite content, and may be doing so to make money for the proxy owner.
Can you try a different web browser and try again?
Can you try with disabled addons?
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Very odd.
*Edited to add* Viglink is set up to monetize outbound traffic. It creates affiliate links when a link is set up to certain merchant sites. The kickback happens when someone purchases through that affiliate link.
But some of these Viglinks are to various journals, or comment links on journals...it seems like someone mucked up a code placement and it is wreaking havoc with LJ generally.
D.
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Joy.
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Thanks for the link.
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I was just thinking of you today - my workout music was the compilation you made for me one year, "Muscle and Hate." Awesome workout music. So much so that I might have overdid it a bit on the heavy bag....
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SCOTUS doesn't rule on fairness, but on the letter of the law, and all the justices agreed the case didn't meet the requirements under Rule 23, even though they disagreed on some of the particulars.
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i don't get how they can throw out a case because it is too large...i mean, wouldn't it make more sense to throw it out because it was too SMALL? being large would seem more like a reason to give it precedence.
anyhow. fuck 'em all.
eta: i just scrolled up and saw that it was too large because there were too many different allegations. that makes more sense to me, actually.
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I am less pleased that I'm still getting these viglink hijacks.
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