Skimlinks trial on MSE forums

robt_2

Not entirely sure what that has to do with Sinlinks?

LardyCake

LardyCake wrote: »

... I'm sure I can work it out for myself.

I would recommend http://www.hosts-file.net/
if anybody wishes to research their hosts file options.

This is quite a useful search as well:
http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=domain.name.of.interest&view=matches

I'm not suggesting that anyone should block any particular domain(s).

I have chosen to block skimlinks.com servers via iptables

TurkishDelight

LardyCake wrote: »

I would recommend http://www.hosts-file.net/
if anybody wishes to research their hosts file options.

This is quite a useful search as well:
http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=domain.name.of.interest&view=matches

I'm not suggesting that anyone should block any particular domain(s).

I have chosen to block skimlinks.com servers via iptables

Well that sounds :eek:

I just use a firefox addon (ad block plus).

furndire

MSE_Archna wrote: »

Hi all,

After listening to your feedback and discussing it with the team we've decided to remove Skimlinks from the Competitions forum. Do note though, existing Skimlinks will take a day or so to revert back to non-Skimlinks due to caching.

Thanks

Thank goodness for that. Highly delighted. At least now MSE will get paid for other links that I use from here - as AdBlock Plus stopped me using any from other boards.

JDPower

furndire wrote: »

AdBlock Plus stopped me using any from other boards.

In what way???

fire**fly

MSE_Archna wrote: »

Hi all,

After listening to your feedback and discussing it with the team we've decided to remove Skimlinks from the Competitions forum. Do note though, existing Skimlinks will take a day or so to revert back to non-Skimlinks due to caching.

Thanks

thank you

Minerva69

Totality wrote: »

I only found this thread earlier today. I must have missed the email notifying me of such a major change.

You didn't miss the email - there wasn't one. Just the link at the top of the forums.

Totality wrote: »

Personally, and I don't like that I'm having to do this, but because of the browser experience i had, to me that means I'm not in 100% control of what I do with this website, so from now on when I see a link, I'm going to be opening a new window and just typing in the URL myself.

Me too - I haven't clicked on a link since I first heard about the trial. I won't be doing until (hopefully) Skimlinks is removed from all the forums, not just Comping.

robt_2

It is mentioned in this weeks newsletter

Former_MSE_Ian

Hi all,

Just to keep you all in the loop. We are working on adding an option to allow you to opt-out of Skimlinks as part of the trial

I just wanted to take a moment to explain how the opt-out will work – it will be a setting in the user CP (which we will point people to)

For those of you interested in the technical side of things (may be gobbledygook to some).

It’s important to understand the Skimlinks Javascript may be cached within a post, so the option for turning it off has to be making that javascript not work, rather than deleting it. So that when you click the link if you’re opted out, while some Javascript will be fired off, it won’t actually do anything, leaving you to follow the link naturally without being redirected! My apologies to anyone I lost with that paragraph. That’s all the jargon.

One last thing to mention. Your opted-out status only affects how you see links and not how others choose to see your links. I hope this helps give you some idea where we are going with our Skimlinks implementation in the near future.

Kind regards,
MSE Ian

meher

MSE_Ian wrote: »

Your opted-out status only affects how you see links and not how others choose to see your links.

you're a clever bunch working at all the nuances that would make a difference to the site and yet benefit the users

thanks for the updates