Skimlinks on Talk

Amy, if you read further up thread you will see that my name is turning into a link! If that's not incorrect, I don't know what is.

Waltons

I will if I spot another one! My memory is that it was something to do with meditation, but can't remember where it was.

Ps, no links are my own in that post

Or this one

We're all gonna have to add nethuns style tickers with the "no links are my own" disclaimer in them!!

Ugh, MNHQ, really? This is so...grubby.

hemi try checking the adblockers settings for "non-invasive ads"

I think MNHQ have just increases the number of ad block users.

And as for making it easier for us, if you are using MN chances are you can use google.

(No links are mine)

my adblock doesn't seem to deal with these.

It's pretty awful. The translation isn't even ideal - sometimes a word triggers a link, and it's not even the link the poster was talking about, but some other company, which is confusing to those who are actually reading the post. Seems unfair to promote certain brands, particularly when not the ones the poster was actually discussing.

it's also very distracting and disrupts the flow of reading

AdBlock stops you seeing the links but doesn't stop them being inserted into your posts.

I use AdBlock (and Ghostery, would highly recommend both) but it's the very existence of the links that irks me. I don't want to be a vehicle for advertising companies/products/brands I don't choose to recommend.

(Any links appearing in this post other than those marked as my own have been inserted automatically by advertising software and may link to companies or products I would neither support nor recommend.)

Adblock, blu? It works :) I am very impressed with it and don't know why I waited so long to download it!!

OK, have read the thread, you are pretty committed to it for a while, at least.

It's not for me.

Thanks for the good times,

Signing out.

I DON'T WANT FUCKING LINKS IN MY DISCUSSION POSTS IN ANY COLOUR!

Can we not have discussions without being hijacked by your bloody advertising?

It is tacky, insulting... it may well finally push me off MN, after 14 years.

Please, please stop this, MNHQ.

It is BLOODY AWFUL.

I do not want naff links in my posts, if I want to link to the posters I am communicating with, I will put in a link of my choice, which is actually accurate and relevant. I can't be bothered to click ANY links now because I don't want to think I am partaking in the post but am actually being used as ad-fodder.

And stop it with the 'it makes things easier for us'. Patronising and disingenuous. Tell us how much brings you in increased earnings!

I really, really hate this.

Skimlinks are not useful to anyone! We all know how to access eBay or where to buy a mobile phone.

It gets in the way of our conversation and not just annoying but sinisterly so.

Also - how do you know you won't be targeted by bots whose whole purpose of being here is to deliberately drop the skimlinks mentions into conversation?

It's bad enough with journos starting threads, this is another level!

Please don't do this to us, it's insulting to put adverts into our actual conversations.

Hahahahahaha
They're gone!!!

Adblock plus, you say...?

(Now that's a skimlink I would click on )

Grrr, I'm contributing to the problem.

There are not highlighted in my posts either on my iPad or my iPhone thanks to adblock plus.

iPad and iPhone have links in your latest posts WhyPost

(Though in standard MN blue not red!!! 😠)

Oops, no I worded that all wrong. I just meant that asblock plus works in my iPhone too.

I promise I'm not usually this incoherent 😬

Hang on, Skimlinks are on mobile now too? They weren't the other day 😡

My phone is on a really old iOS so I can get Adblock but I'm planning on getting a new phone within a month so then I'll completely block ads and MN won't even get my accidental clicks

(old phone don't want to try latest as it's already crapping out)

HERE is my advertising link Adblock plus is working perfectly for me on my iPad and iPhone. It's free and gets rid of all advertising.

I don't think I'm depriving MN of any revenue as I wouldn't ever purposely click on a skimlink. 😇

I'm not sure that would work on mobile devices older ?

• ^Any links in this post are random advertising shit, not me, so ignore them.

I could just stick a disclaimer in all my posts telling people how to block to bloody script. Do you reckon MNHQ would mind?

Though this is going to start looking like netmums with the signatures

That's a good idea Homunculus

• Any links appearing in this post other than those marked as my own have been inserted automatically by advertising software and may link to companies or products I would neither support nor recommend.

I'm going to be popping this disclaimer at the bottom of all my posts:

(Any links appearing in this post other than those marked as my own have been inserted automatically by advertising software and may link to companies or products I would neither support nor recommend.)

I'll also be putting "(my link)" after any links I've put in posts myself.

Turning brand/company/product names into links automatically is annoying and a bit intrusive but I really dislike the changing of seemingly random words into links as it's impossible to avoid doing it.