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Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs = dubious, but just about defensible Stripping affiliate links from freely hosted blogs AND replacing them w

• barrkel 17y ago
  It's even worse - not only is it stripping links, it's often actually breaking them. The www.glutenfreebay.com example actually should redirect to glutenfreebay.blogspot.com, but instead it's heading to ebay.com.
  • zaatar 17y ago
    It's actually any domain with the word "bay" that redirects to ebay.com: http://www.crittersbythebay.com http://www.crittersbythebay.com for example.
    • djcapelis 17y ago
      Uhm, you're aware that link has "ebay.com" as the last 8 characters of the domain, right?
      • mbreese 17y ago
        What does that have to do with it? If I put to a link to "ifreakinghateebay.com" would it be okay if they rediected it to ebay? No, of course not.
        • djcapelis 17y ago
          Oh, it's clearly broken, it's just the comment I was replying to asserted that anything with the word bay in it triggers the breakage. This seems to be unlikely. The fact that the behavior was broken and links unrelated to ebay were being redirected to ebay was already well established by that point in the thread. Understanding which links are affected by this issue and the scope of the problem might be relevant. In fact, one might go ahead and leap to the conclusion based on our revised understanding (that it does in-fact likely need ebay.com in the url to trigger) that this error is being caused by an unfortunately constructed regular expression or overaggressive pattern match and one might even learn something. But far be it from me to assume that such a far fetched conjecture has anything to do with it.
          • dandelany 17y ago
            !!"eBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true !!"CrittersByTheBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true !!"ThePirateBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true