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They've disabled it. http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1060179 http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=106017...

timmorgan 17y ago
"The issues you describe were caused by some new LiveJournal code which produced these unexpected effects." I'm not sure how any of that could really and truthfully be "unexpected."
- Legion 17y ago
  It was the backlash that was "unexpected". As usual.
  - ohashi 17y ago
    When will companies learn to stop lying to their users and just issue real apologies?
    - tumult 17y ago
      When an apology that admits you made a mistake cannot be used as evidence against you in a lawsuit.
    - ErrantX 17y ago
      It could be that they intended to redirect ebay.com links and a mistake ended up redirecting everything with ebay.com in it? From what I've read that seems a possibility.
- deleted 17y ago
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bbatsell 17y ago
They've claimed to disable it, but it's still active. (Just click the "glutenfreebay" link in the OP.)
- Willie_Dynamite 17y ago
  I did before I posted the link, and I didn't get redirected to eBay.
  - pyre 17y ago
    That link is currently still redirecting me to ebay.com.
    - Willie_Dynamite 17y ago
      I don't have a lj account and I'm not ebayed. Both Chrome and FF steadfastly refuses to steal my click.
      - pyre 17y ago
        Could have been a caching issue. The link is no longer broken for me.
  - jonknee 17y ago
    Are you logged into LJ? Try logging out and clicking again.
- mgrouchy 17y ago
  You are correct. I got redirected to ebay.
- bartl 17y ago
  Judging by some of the comments there, it was all done in Javascript. So whether it still happens to you or not, might be caused by whether you have that Javascript file in your browser cache.