MSPlinks.com - MySpace Adds Redirects to Outgoing Links?

http://socialham.com/2007/04/23/myspace-begins-filtering-outgoing-links/

Unfortunately this new Msplinks.com scheme also blocks links to legitimate sites not deemed to be "spam", including any blogger site. Fortunately I've found a way around this new form of MySpace censorship, full code and details at: http://rufuswhite.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-myspace-censorship-and-how-to-get.html

Hope this helps anyone in the same situation.
Rufus

If you want to be able to actually see the links before you click on them I wrote a small greasemonkey script to decode them in your browser. You can read about it at http://www.smert.net/2007/07/01/myspace-filters-all-external-links-now/

MSPlinks.com redirects withhold information about outgoing links from MySpace users that may lead to increased phishing incidents. Personally, I think these redirects make MySpace a more dangerous place for the average MySpace user. I wrote an article about this that I hope your readers find useful and relevant.

http://socialmedia.ws/blog/myspace-sacrafices-user-safety-to-become-a-content-destination/

I spent many hours over the course of a year designing two random quote generators on my private AOL (paid account). They are two simple pages each with only one link back to MySpace! But the new msplinks have rendered the paths inaccessible from my MySpace page. What is it that’s so threatening? My AOL acct. or the quote generator from Lycos HTML Gear? I’ve emailed their Help Desk 3 times and received the same generic non-answer to my problem. (Their troubled Goth msg. boards are no help either) If they are suggesting that I’m a phisher that’s laughable! I don’t even have “friends” or contact people via MySpace–It’s just a design hobby in my lonely life. But I get the last laugh… MySpace and its paranoid geeks are more pathetic!

I wonder if they are filtering out sites as well. I posted a link on the bulletin it is not working but at the same time i posted another link with banner that works. Not sure whats happening.

I just noticed yesterday that I can't send mutiple pictures in private messages even from photobucket. The msplink url automatically attaches itself to each picture url and when the recipient tries to open it, the pictures will appear for a split second then disappear.

So what I've been doing is sending it...because unlike comments you don't get a chance to edit your mail messages...then going into my sent bin, clicking forward, sending it to the same person, deleting the msplinks url and resending. Then the pictures work just fine.

This is dumb.

XOXO
~K~

I noticed that my ZoneAlarm immediately puts www.msplinks.com in as a blocked site in the Spy Site Blocking section. That's disturbing. Myspace is just like most other sites that become popular. It starts off great and then the creators become greedier and greedier and start screwing up their site to try and make another buck. I would like some of the links on Myspace to work, but I'm afraid to take msplinks out of my blocked sites since ZoneAlarm deemed it worthy to put it in their Spy Site list.

Hey guys...

Ever heard of URL REDIRECTING SERVICE?!

Try 4ton.com

MySpace is wising up though..

P.S.
99% of the time, those 'tutorials' on MySpace are fake, shitty, and spam

Umm...anyone ever heard of th "tab" key. You could use it to navigate from link to link without clicking that horrendous msplinks link box that covers half your profile page. Go ahead, try it...it's free!

Has anyone else noticed the if you go to the generic msplinks.com you get what looks like a blank white page, but if you notice when you run the mouse over the top left of the loaded page the mouse cursor changes. if you hi-lite the area it reads "myspace.com not a place for spammers." If you look at the code the font color is set to white.

Scarlet Kings (Nashville, TN) - (formerly Oval Opus) like other bands have used MySpace as the core of our efforts to promote our music. We have a site that is specifically focused on our grassroots street team activities. We are trying to post a bulletin in MySpace to get our friends to join. Unfortunately, it appears that the following link is being redirected to myspace.com:

http://fancorps.com/scarletkings

Has anyone else experienced this problem or have a workaround?

Bryan
Manager, Scarlet Kings

If you idiots don't know what you're putting into your myspace, don't fucking put it up! Learn HTML for christ sake.

I'm not legal expert, but I don't think MySpace has the authority to label other peoples' sites as spam. Does it look like you're losing money from this? I'd be very interested to know how this turns out...
-Ski