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[qwerty000]

whats up with all the links now having the final4ever forums redirect? never noticed it before, whatd it change?

[Wooops]

Originally Posted by qwerty000

whats up with all the links now having the final4ever forums redirect? never noticed it before, whatd it change?

Redirect is for our security, as users are leaving live links and to protect files from being deleted from rapidshare, megaupload, depositfiles etc. If you put redirect search engines won't be able to find those files. So it's for our best interest.

[gamie]

i think u r right ( almod)

[kazura999]

The search engine thing is pretty clever^^

[Xtreame96]

I bow to the l33tness, it is a good policy, since "APPNAME rapidshare.com" is the google search for all things...

[quangminh]

but these directs took me alot of waiting time

[uXu]

Originally Posted by quangminh

but these directs took me alot of waiting time

But for the "little" added wait time, its worth it.... after all, you are getting what you want for free......

[psphaxer]

It Is Worth It Cause Its Free, But It Is Annoying Every Link Does It, Sometimes I Open So Many I Lose Track

[Replicant2]

You can copy the link, paste it in a new tab, edit out the redirect, and no referring page will be sent. Unfortunately, when you do it this way the links are not shown as visited links.
However you can get user scripts that remove the redirect and open links in a new tab, and visited links will show as visited, or you can copy the link and past it without having to edit it.

[Crzy_Jkr@u]

But why is that it is infested with trojans...lol

[Wooops]

Originally Posted by Crzy_Jkr@u

But why is that it is infested with trojans...lol

Infested with trojans Crzy_Jkr@u ?

[Replicant2]

Maybe he's talking about all the pop-ups and whatever, which is really bad...
The last time I clicked a link, and I have the habit of opening in a new tab, I was logged into "www.final4ever.com" and the link was actually a link to another page on this forum, but I believe the redirect was from "final4ever.com" which I wasn't logged into, so tons of garbage opened up - cookie confirmations and post submissions which I manually verify each one if the domain is not in my list. This caused my already over-loaded browser to come to a screeching halt.
This really sucks.
First of all, why do links in the same domain need redirects?
Second, why all those suspicious JavaScript post submissions when cookies are blocked?

(This is why I don't like XMLHttpRequest and Ajax because it's just becoming another way to take advantage of users, to get around cookie and ad blocking).

[Edit: I don't remember exactly what happened, and I'd rather not try it again right now, so I'm going by memory of several days ago. Also if you do a Quick Edit it will automatically parse links that weren't originally parsed, while I'm remembering that]