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Oh My Good Lord. You're doing random links from my posts!!!!!?!

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EdMcDunnough · 03/10/2012 20:53

I just wrote something about tyres here and it turned my word 'e b a y' into a LINK!?!

WTF? I didn't do that! Is this going to turn into one of those forums where every other word is a link to some shite you never wanted to advertise look at in the first place?

What is going on??????? Shock

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SeventhEverything · 03/10/2012 22:10

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QuintessentialShadows · 03/10/2012 22:05

hm

Marks and spencers. next, boden ebay

GolfOscarLimaDelta · 03/10/2012 22:03

I read the other thread.

Somehow the fact that MNHQ aren't exactly sure on the process/choice of shops doesn't really make me feel better tbh :(

JollyToddler · 03/10/2012 22:02

Hahaha!

I bought some food from Marks and Spencers recently but DS didn't like it. He will only drink Tropicana too.

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GolfOscarLimaDelta · 03/10/2012 21:56

What about Next?

That's a word people just use.

Next week I will be throwing a naked pombear themed party.

Really uncomfortable about this.

I don't know, I get that they need to make money and all but to just add this with no warning? seems sneaky somehow. Not sure I trust them with my email address now :(

It just little things keep getting added in. And always around a time when it's slow around here. And then we get told it's the servers. And then 'but these revenue things help us pay for the servers' which seems to imply they are making these changes so that we can have it running smoothly again.

Haberdashery · 03/10/2012 21:55

I wondered what was going on. I saw some links that I wouldn't have expected earlier and was quite frankly aghast at the posters who'd seen fit to link to ebay etc in case we hadn't previously known where to find them. Um. Not really good, Mumsnet Towers. It's like those awful sites you find when you are googling that send you off to a page of non-existent links where you can buy toddler teething problems or whatever.

Do you need the revenue that badly? It makes you look a bit shoddy, IMO, and also looks a bit spywareish.

Helpyourself · 03/10/2012 21:48

My iphone autocorrects ebay to eBay.

roundtable · 03/10/2012 21:46

dragonbutter

I've never searched this, I'm too scared but I wonder if it'll link.

roundtable · 03/10/2012 21:46

dragonbutter

I've never searched this, I'm too scared but I wonder if it'll link.

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:45

It's Ebay Helpyourself

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:45

Yes!

Helpyourself · 03/10/2012 21:44

Wonga
eBay
Boden

AnAssumedIdentity · 03/10/2012 21:44

"John Lewis" or John Lewis - hmmm

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:43

"ebay"

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:42

Or look! If you do " " then it doesn't work! "Tesco" "Asda" Tesco Asda

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:42

i vote that we call Asda "Ahsdah" and "Tesco" can be....what?

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:41

Ooooh! Well then...if we don't like it we can just say code words for companies we don't wish to promote.

AnAssumedIdentity · 03/10/2012 21:40

Ooh - bit cheeky I think. Needs to be flagged in advance I think.

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:40

Ocado

Amazon

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:39

Sainsburys

AnAssumedIdentity · 03/10/2012 21:39

John Lewis - does it only become a link when you've hit the return key and are powerless to preent it...... Testing, testing ...

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:39

Asda

GolfOscarLimaDelta · 03/10/2012 21:39

Some of them ^ up there are showing as links and some aren't. But the first time I read this thread none of them did/

Very strange.

Mostly eBay and Boden ones < checking to see if mine are.

I don't like it at all.

Agree that it's wrong for a company to get a link if it's not deserved - ie if the OP was complaining.

And something like W onga which is a word some people actually use? Very wrong to turn our conversations into an advertising op.

BigFatLegsInWoolyTIghts · 03/10/2012 21:38

Greggs

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