Sneaky advertising links appearing in posts

[Gumby]

There are squirrels embedded in the forum attaching links to keywords in unsuspecting members posts.

If you havent noticed it, check out how many sneaky links to amazon there are in this thread:

http://dnbforum.com/showthread.php/132709-Top-5-favourite-albums-ever

notice the occasional blue text?

please make it stop.

kthnxbai.

 

[Deleted member 23164]

squirrels in the forum?

 

[D-Jhepz]

... u should probably lay off tha ganjaaa

 

[fractal]

i remember skimlinks for a while but i cant see any anymore

green doesnt make you see imaginary links afaik

 

[D-Jhepz]

no it does not make ME see imaginary links, may do for others

 

[Harry3]

There are squirrels embedded in the forum attaching links to keywords in unsuspecting members posts.

If you havent noticed it, check out how many sneaky links to amazon there are in this thread:

http://dnbforum.com/showthread.php/132709-Top-5-favourite-albums-ever

notice the occasional blue text?

please make it stop.

kthnxbai.

its skimlinks, adds links to ebay and amazon for popular things and means the forum gets a bit of money

if it annoys you that much get Adblock Plus (for firefox, chrome, opera but not Internet Explorer)

 

[$marty]

Yeah think it's helping pay for running the site afaik.

 

[Gumby]

god damn squirrels stealing my nuts!

 

[sdm]

Yeah think it's helping pay for running the site afaik.

This.

You're all welcome to contribute towards the costs to get rid of the ads

 

[Harry3]

how would we donate?

 

[sdm]

how would we donate?

We used to have a system for donations. Maybe we'll bring that back

 

[subprime]

Yeah I donated a tenner or something once, not much but I'd do it again.

 

[Forau]

A couple of forums ive been members of in the past have had a VIP kind of thing. Donate (or pay like £2 a month) and you get access to more/special sections of the forum, special coloured name to show your a helpful bastard etc.

Might be worth looking into.