Entries from MSE not accepted?

Spot5Flowers

Hi, I'm fairly new on the competitions board here, but a long time comper.
I spotted these terms on a competition
Entries from MoneySavingsExpert, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included in any of our competitions.

Obviously you could C&P the address from the competition forum into a new window every time, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of a firefox/chrome extension that does the job?

Apols if this has been discussed before, I've had a search but couldn't find anything.

serenity2012

What comp and what site was it from? Be interested to know

Update: found some , just not going to up their figures by posting links to them lol:)
Seems to be a few saying this now and including this forum. All of them so far that I've found have been little blogs.

Spot5Flowers

Well, no not bothered about that comp so much, but I suppose other sites have similar terms, and some may not say so.

nelie

That compeition is via email, so they wouldn't be able to tell how you found it anyway.

In safari it's just ''do not track'' which stops them from seeing the browsing history.

might be useful?

Daphne01

You can block referrers with this ad on so sites don't know where you've clicked from

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Web_Developer_Extension_%28external%29

Some sites don't accept entries when referrers are blocked and you need to re allow for the form to go through

emiai

Just have two windows open, and drag the links into the alternate open window.
That works for the Take a break ones

LadyMorticia

You can also block the referrer by doing this:

1. Type about:config into the FF url bar
2. It will say something about monsters (or something similar). Just click "I'll be careful". You won't break your browser or damage your computer, honest!
3. Now type network.http.sendRefererHeader into the search bar.
4. The value will be set to 2. Right click on the 2, select 'modify' and change to 0. Then you're done and website won't know where you've come form. Bear in mind though that if you use cashback sites, they rely on the referrer to know that you've gone through them to get to websites and some comp sites rely on referrers.

magical

Do people win more from blocking the referral link x

caitieface

Had to Google that phrase to find out how much this bothered me...eh, I'll live Quite annoying though, do hope it doesn't become a trend. In my mind, these people run competitions to get more exposure and by being listed on MSE they're getting, well, rather a lot of exposure. Sure, we might only be in it for the competitions, but who exactly enters competitions for any other reason?! Just seems like a giant marketing fail to me.

(I appear to be posting an awful lot of rants tonight, feel free to just skip past...)

The_3rd_Zebu

Well I can see why the puzzle mags like Take a Break actually block access to the entry page that have come from MSE.

They may feel that their puzzle magaziness are aimed at people who actually like solving the puzzles for themselves. They might regard it as unsporting if masses of people are able to enter without even looking at the puzzles and possibly a bit unfair on those who do make the effort to solve them.

kisto

Spot5Flowers wrote: »

Hi, I'm fairly new on the competitions board here, but a long time comper.
I spotted these terms on a competition
Entries from MoneySavingsExpert, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included in any of our competitions.

Obviously you could C&P the address from the competition forum into a new window every time, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of a firefox/chrome extension that does the job?

Apols if this has been discussed before, I've had a search but couldn't find anything.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure in Firefox, that if you 'drag' the link to a new tab (the + symbol) it opens a new tab without the referrer information. There is several 'no referral' plug in for Firefox - I used to use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ - but now I just drag the links to a new tab.