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just googled the "redirectingat" and learned same thing. i believe last night was first time i started seeing it.

http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://skimlinks.com/

werent posters not allowed to post referral links? so now IB can.

what if a poster did post a referral link, would it be changed?

i dont think this affects me, but i find it ridiculous.

Indeed I just noticed this the other day when I found redirectingat was blocked on the computer I was using and I was thus unable to open links.

Most annoying. I have hundreds of FAQ links on FT which I maintain and are now potentially useless. At the very least links to FT posts (and other parts of FT site eg wiki, TOS, etc) shouldn't go through this.

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even trying to fix the link after it doesnt work might be hard if there are %20 etc added in.

but you can always right click copy link.

I've just noticed this too - and it's really annoying and an extremely shady practice. I thought the computer I was on was infected with a virus or something.

Considering a lot of FTers use websites for their own gains where they may earn cashback etc. For example I earn a bit of money on Hilton bookings through Quidco. Presumably if I clicked Hilton links the money would have gone to FT had I not noticed the redirecting.at url.

Shame on FT :td:

so it automatically does it for you in your browser, and skimlinks overrides it? jesus.

also, so much for right clicking copy link, thats impossible.

so if a link is abbreviated, youre screwed.

i just seemed to be noticing lag with the service as well.

fun times!

I just noticed the redirect thingy. :eek:

I hate the fact it slows down the page load. :(

With this new IB "improvement", what happens to the conga or referral links in our SPAM Forum? Who's going to earn the referral credit now? :confused:

Just noticed it as well as the lag time.

I guess it's safe to assume that every single link, even to non-commercial stuff, will be redirected.

Pretty crappy, IMHO.

But this isn't Randy's FT any longer. It took nearly 3 years for them to start making wholesale changes, but they finally did it. If we keep reminding ourselves that this is a for-profit business, then nothing should surprise us going forward.

I too wonder what will happen with congas.

Along the same lines, what is adtmt.com, which seems to insert itself when I try to open threads from work for at least the last several months. About a third of the time, I get an error message, and sure enough if I hold the back-arrow dropdown, I see the site in the history. I usually have to hit refresh to get the page to link properly.

When opening up this thread, the backlink was:
http://view.atdmt.com/DEN/iview/1453045

When I try to open that URL up in a new window, work's controls refuse it. So can somebody tell me what they see when they go to that URL?

Hopefully me. :)

Some enterprising FT member with access to their own hosting might try creating a redirecting page of their own for a conga, and then people could post the links as:

http:// myserver.com/FT-conga.php?ReferringFTMember

Even better if somebody has a Lotus Domino server and they could make it a .nsf Lotuscript agent instead of PHP.

I bet that the IB redirection wouldn't know what to do with that.

When I do that I get the redirect link not the original.

It's a blank page of a size 1x1 pixel.

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if IB has an account for whatever site it is, they do. ill bet their people are running around making accounts at every site right now.

If that's the case, another big :td: from me to IB.

I bet IB never thinks of FT members' conga interruption when implementing this redirecting initiative. :mad:

The lag time is really really annoying. Every redirected page now takes almost like a lifetime to load! A very bad move in my book. :td: