As I understand things, while the whole thing might be considered at the least ethically questionable on the part of the people *doing* it, the code isn't dangerous or truly malicious. The most damaging thing that seems to happen with the current code is, if some of the links in the chain aren't working properly, clicking on links to certain sites won't work. (But since it doesn't edit the html of the page, you can still right-click, copy the url, and then paste it into a window.) I don't think I'd worry about Yuku being blocked.
Like I said before, this feels like something you're already paying money to have not happen. But apparently it's fairly polite about it now, so I don't know how much ground you could get on the issue. (Since it's supposed to not touch existing affiliate IDs in links and such.) Still, it's an annoyance factor, since even when it's working properly, it still *takes longer* to load some links as it goes through the redirect process. And then sometimes the server is down and it blows up. (Seems like the server being down is less likely to blow it up in the current system though.)
The problem with just blocking outboundlink.me is that part of the code is located on Yuku's servers, so if you allow yuku to run javascript (which does allow several useful things*), it'll still be doing stuff and wasting time trying to do whatever whenever you hover over a link. A more proper solution would be to either block the loading of that script file, or redefine the function that sets the whole thing off before it gets executed. Not that I'm sure the latter is viable, and I don't know any way to do any of it without using either a greasemonkey script (or probably Opera's user scripts could do it), or running yuku requests through Proxomitron.
*Like not having all the mod functions out disrupting the layout and inviting the possibility of me accidentally banning someone. Okay, so not everyone needs to worry about that one.
-Morgan.
Like I said before, this feels like something you're already paying money to have not happen. But apparently it's fairly polite about it now, so I don't know how much ground you could get on the issue. (Since it's supposed to not touch existing affiliate IDs in links and such.) Still, it's an annoyance factor, since even when it's working properly, it still *takes longer* to load some links as it goes through the redirect process. And then sometimes the server is down and it blows up. (Seems like the server being down is less likely to blow it up in the current system though.)
The problem with just blocking outboundlink.me is that part of the code is located on Yuku's servers, so if you allow yuku to run javascript (which does allow several useful things*), it'll still be doing stuff and wasting time trying to do whatever whenever you hover over a link. A more proper solution would be to either block the loading of that script file, or redefine the function that sets the whole thing off before it gets executed. Not that I'm sure the latter is viable, and I don't know any way to do any of it without using either a greasemonkey script (or probably Opera's user scripts could do it), or running yuku requests through Proxomitron.
*Like not having all the mod functions out disrupting the layout and inviting the possibility of me accidentally banning someone. Okay, so not everyone needs to worry about that one.
-Morgan.