Skimlinks on Talk

How are people going to make the difference between those links and those that people are putting on purpose?
I think it also devalues the links posters are putting on TBH.

And yes it does out me off clicking on anything at all too.

Yes, there's a noticeable delay in the link changing colour.

It posted in black first and then changed to pink.

You're right RustyBear - you won't know until you've actually posted that you have inadvertently posted a link.

Great. Not.

Maybe I should ask Waltons (the shed company) for a cut?

(No sign of a skimlink in Preview ... )

I feel they changed the colour to black and removed the underscore, all would be good...

They've changed the colour...

It actually seems to take several seconds for it to decide it's a link.

So bolding it doesn't work.

Is that link red because it's bold, or because it's been followed, or have they just changed the colour?

Just testing...

Waltons

Sometimes I feel for the MN developers.

I'm assuming it's not a developer saying it's going to take a day to implement a change of hex code, it's probably someone saying "no I don't want to make it red/green/obvious" or "can we make it look a bit different but not too different".
The decisions take all day, implementation can be minutes

Ha, ha, ha, HQ.

A post by bluejelly @ Thu 16-Feb-17 14:16:26, quoting my name.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2855976-To-think-this-divorce-will-financially-ruin-me-and-my-children?watched=1&msgid=67000554#67000554

I am now a direct link to a company making sheds ...

If tech has issues with a simple colour change, maybe they are not a very good tech.

You've got a skimwords-link class in your CSS and the colour is set to #1899ee. It would have been just as easy to choose a different colour.

WhyPost HAHAHAHA, at least you got there in the end 😂.

I'm pretty bad with passwords, though I do know better so at work my passwords are like "fiw9Ueo2hd;(JS". No one remembers those though.

Scrap that..... it is working. I'd just forgotten that I'd turned off Adblock Plus. 😬

All good...

No, I was wrong. Skimlinks is still working and is still ANNOYING me. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I'm back in and I think that I've got rid of Skimlinks. Phew. 😁

I'm really good at keeping track of my passwords and log in details (all different and complex passwords plus lots of unique emails etc - 😇)

I can log into other site just not mumsnet. I hope that Justines not banned me 😂

WhyPost oh no! I never clear all my cookies anymore, just select ones from select domains or the ones from the past day/week. Someone at work did it to my laptop and I couldn't do anything because I was locked out of so much, too ages to put right.

Now I've logged myself out on my iPad and can't log back in 😂. I'm posting from my phone! . I thought clearing out all my cookies was a good idea.....

I'll get there, eventually

Just checked AB on its own and disabling that option works.

Odd that its not working for you

WhyPost
I've got AB and ABP. I was fiddling with the ABP settings, I took out all my attempts at custom filters and toggling the "non-intrusive" think is all i need.

I've still got the opt out cookie that was set on the link you gave earlier too.

So now I've gone nuclear and disabled the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" option (never bothered me before skimlinks started lighting up MN), NO MORE SKIMLINKS
olderthanyouthink
I'd already disabled the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" option but I am still getting the ruddy skimlinks. I've turned it off and on again

I only allow cookies from the website I'm currently visiting. I know I could have more control if I allowed cookies but then I have to allow cookies.... grrr so frustrating. That Adblock whitelist is REALLY irritating. Ive got on well with Adblock plu but I'm going to look and see if there is a better option.

@WhyPost see my latest post (quick before MNHQ delete it!!!!)