vigLink links appearing on discussions

Argoon1981 · Dec 9, 2018, 05:54 PM

Hello only recently did i realized many in-text links are in reality direct links to ebay and have nothing to do with the supposed text they highlight, is this intentional or is this a virus?

Munkus · Dec 9, 2018, 06:28 PM

Same. It's annoying. Viglink is creating links out of random key words. For example, someone posted the text "it's a pain" and Viglink made pain a link to eBay.

Edit: and it just did it for "eBay"

Admin, any way to knock this crap off?

SubCog · Dec 9, 2018, 07:19 PM

Gross!

wazman · Dec 9, 2018, 07:32 PM

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

Argoon1981 · Dec 9, 2018, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wazman

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

I'm also using chrome with adblock and i'm having that.

Munkus · Dec 10, 2018, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wazman

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

I tweaked my Adblock so all better now. Thanks.

Argoon1981 · Dec 10, 2018, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Munkus

I tweaked my Adblock so all better now. Thanks.

Could you share what you did to remove that? Please.

edit: forget me asking, it seems it was easy to remove that links with adblock.

Munkus · Dec 10, 2018, 09:52 PM

It's back again, even with adblock on.

Munkus · Dec 10, 2018, 09:55 PM

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to disable itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

wazman · Dec 10, 2018, 10:00 PM

ebay

Testing again.

Still didn't do it...

Random words to test things.

Seyiji · Dec 11, 2018, 12:16 AM

eBay.

Cyko · Dec 11, 2018, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Munkus

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to go eff itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

Meteor_of_War · Dec 11, 2018, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Munkus

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to disable itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

Thank you!!

KAC · Dec 18, 2018, 01:07 PM

How do you do this crap on phone. I am getting a ton of keyword ads in Safari.

SubCog · Dec 25, 2018, 12:10 AM

Can we please change viglinks to vaglinks? I don't think anyone here will complain.

Meteor_of_War · Sep 20, 2019, 09:40 AM

Is anyone else having issues with these Viglink things again? I have it disabled on this page but am still getting the annoying Viglinks in posts. What happened?

[EDIT] Oh so it should be set to ENABLED? Links seem to be gone now when set to enabled on that page. I must have cleared my cookies and when I went to fix Viglinks I set it to disabled when it should be enabled. Confusing to my feeble mind apparently.

[EDIT2] Nope, the links are back. They keep reverting, and I have to keep going back and re-enabling on the opt out page. So something may be wrong with the cookie saving on my browser.

[EDIT3] OK looks like the Adblock add-on in Firefox was updated and maybe I needed to adjust settings. Enabling "Block additional tracking" and disabling "Allow Acceptable Ads" seems to have fixed the Viglinks coming back.

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Dec 9, 2018, 07:32 PM	#4
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Dec 9, 2018, 06:28 PM	#2
Munkus Hugged your dog lately? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Big Sky Country Posts: 27,661	Same. It's annoying. Viglink is creating links out of random key words. For example, someone posted the text "it's a pain" and Viglink made pain a link to eBay. Edit: and it just did it for "eBay" Admin, any way to knock this crap off?

Dec 10, 2018, 09:52 PM	#8
Munkus Hugged your dog lately? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Big Sky Country Posts: 27,661	It's back again, even with adblock on.

Dec 10, 2018, 09:55 PM	#9
Munkus Hugged your dog lately? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Big Sky Country Posts: 27,661	BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to disable itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

Dec 10, 2018, 10:00 PM	#10
wazman Resident Curmudgeon Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4,214	ebay Testing again. Still didn't do it... Random words to test things. __________________ "And if I only could, Make a deal with God, And get him to swap our places..." - Placebo, "Running Up That Hill" RIP, Hannibal. RIP, Shadow. RIP, Mitchell. RIP, Annie. RIP, Jones.

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Dec 18, 2018, 01:07 PM	#14
KAC RGB mofo, do you have it! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lahore Posts: 62,123	How do you do this crap on phone. I am getting a ton of keyword ads in Safari.

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Sep 20, 2019, 09:40 AM	#16
Meteor_of_War USA-holes Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 25,060	Is anyone else having issues with these Viglink things again? I have it disabled on this page but am still getting the annoying Viglinks in posts. What happened? [EDIT] Oh so it should be set to ENABLED? Links seem to be gone now when set to enabled on that page. I must have cleared my cookies and when I went to fix Viglinks I set it to disabled when it should be enabled. Confusing to my feeble mind apparently. [EDIT2] Nope, the links are back. They keep reverting, and I have to keep going back and re-enabling on the opt out page. So something may be wrong with the cookie saving on my browser. [EDIT3] OK looks like the Adblock add-on in Firefox was updated and maybe I needed to adjust settings. Enabling "Block additional tracking" and disabling "Allow Acceptable Ads" seems to have fixed the Viglinks coming back. __________________ =::GameValueNow Collection Tracker::= =::Steam::= Last edited by Meteor_of_War : Sep 20, 2019 at 09:53 AM.

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