All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXIX

[robkelk]

I'm happy that people are agreed that we shouldn't use link shorteners... because I just discovered two that have been hiding a link monetization service since before we forked from TVT. Banning the silly things outright because of their already-proven use in hiding the existence of advertising on the wiki.

Related to this, I just got rid of the last of the tinyurl.com links. I lost track of how many of them had been monetized -- maybe one-tenth of the total.

And I have no idea who was getting the money from clickthroughs from ATT, so we can't go after them to pay the money plus interest to Orain/Miraheze/Wikitide.

On the other hand, there were a lot more obfuscated Wikipedia links than there were obfuscated monetized links.