VigLink's

[MatthewB]

As a fairly benign member of the forum it takes a fair bit to make me miffed.

I appreciate it's not free to run a site so I expect to have advertising appear, but to have my words appropriated without my prior consent is unacceptable, especially if the whole purpose of the post don't exactly sing the praises of said product/service being advertised.

Personally I see it as a significant change to how the forum uses my submissions, and should have required me to re-sign an updated terms and conditions of use. At worst it should be made optional for paying members. If such an option already exists I apologise (I have looked for it honest!).

[paintergirl]

Matthew, I've contacted Admin_Steve on your behalf with a link to this thread.

[MatthewB]

Thanks PG

[Admin_Steve]

Hi Matthew, sorry about any inconvenience. I'm trying to fix issue this as we speak, as the Intellitxt feature not Viglink, its supposed to be for seen by unregistered users only. I'm not sure what went wrong with the settings but I'm trying to get it resolved back to the way it was as soon as possible. Thank you for the heads up. I appreciate it

Cheers,
Steve

[MatthewB]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the update, sounds like you need to give someone in testing or change control a telling off

[rmaxeman]

Bump

I'm getting VigLinks to ebay in this thread - http://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/alfa-...ta-4-sale.html (Just viewed Silver GTA 4 sale)

[WTFH]

Just got it on another thread where the guy mentioned power steering and it linked to ebay.

http://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/alfa-...-steering.html (Power steering)

[bobda]

I think - or rather I hope - this is a bug.
I've raised a support ticket to highlight it to Admin_Steve.

[Admin_Steve]

Hi everyone, sorry for any inconvenience. I'm not too sure what happened but I got VigLink removed again for you guys

Cheers

[David P]

Looks like this is an issue again, see below

Originally Posted by Cathal_H

After posting this morning I noticed some of my posts had URLs linking to ebay searches.. It seems some 'VigLink' app seem to direct certain key words (example, "Water Pump" or "Radiator") to ebay searches....

I clicked on this : VigLink - Opt-Out

and it seems to stop these annoying ads. Does anyone know if this is a personal browser or AO thing?

Cheers,
Cathal

It's also not related to just eBay :

iTunes

[Admin_Steve]

Thanks for the heads up David. If possible I'll just need a screen shot if you guys come across it again, as I can't see anything on my end.

Steve

[David P]

See below Steve :


IE
VigiLinks IE 8.jpg

Chrome
VigiLinks Google Chrome.jpg

FireFox
VigiLinks Google FireFox.jpg


PS It's also occuring when surfing AO via iTouch

[milowokie]

Scirpt Blocker on Firefox removes the annoying links for me.

(Just had to FORBID viglink.com)

[Admin_Steve]

Thanks for the screenshots David, I'll get VigLink disabled again.

Steve

[David P]

It's sorted, thanks

[Admin_Steve]

No worries mate, thanks for reporting that.