I'm not entirely sure what this hack. Does it prevent members from viewing the forum on Link Anonymizer sites or..?

No this hack adds an Anonimyzer URL to all (external if set in Options) links, so that if a member clicks on a posted link, the linked site will not see your address as referrer.

dont u think this will mess up adsense? because google do wants to know were clicks are coming from for that site to get paid

i would like to know if this will anonymize google adsense outgoing links. if so then I will pass on this hack then. Great hack though

It will only work on links inside posts, so as long as your adsense is not inside the posts text, it will work. You can also set domains to exclude from anonymizing in the vB Options.

So, If the http://anonym.to? slow down or die then the links in my forum doesn't work ???

no, all forum links absolutly free from anonym.to. You can just OFF this plugin or choose another site (for example safeurl.de)

The Meta Refresh in this Hack isn't harmless: http://www.url-hijacking.com/index_en.html

Meta refresh is (afaik) the only way to hide the referer but produces an 302.

So, if you wouldn't potential harm the linked page: dont use it (until (e.g.) google fixes this issue - and that may take a while)

A possible solution is to exclude the links.php (wich contains the Meta refresh) in the robots.txt to prevent indexing by SEs.

i've found a similar hack in a german board with the same problem, so i searched here for an alternative ...

and now decided to give it up to hide the referer, cause i didn't see really why i have to.

PS: that's not a critic pointed to the hack, just an information pointed Meta refresh... ;)

I don't see what this got to do with this hack. URL Hijacking like described there is about links TO your site. What this hack does is nothing more then prefixing all OUTGOING links posted at your board with a configurable prefix. If this prefix is set to one of the sites that offer an anonymiser service it will just call that site. Standard vBulletin will anyway open external links in a new window, so i don't see what harm can be done. But ofcourse i don't know what each website that offer this service is doing.

Does this hack work correcly without any problem in vB 3.5.3 ?

Ihave not got any complaints about this hack not working for 3.5.3

Can I just setup some specific forums to use this hack, not all forums ???

No you can't set per forum.

Thank you Link Anonymizer v1.05.3.zip

worked great :)

Install*

If you are just install, i suggest you use 1.10.

The older versions are just there for reference and are not supported anymore.

Installed 1.10 in 3.54 & it works like a dream :banana:

**clicks install**

Did you click install? It is not showing.

Damn man, that is a kick ass mod.............I clicks install

Quick question? Is there a way to specify which forum section to only use this in? Say i have 50 forum section's that may have link's in them, but i only want to use this in forum Id number 21, is that possible or is it just a broad set up for all links in general?

same suggestion ;)

Thanks
Anyone know a site like or better http://anonym.to/ ???

http://safeurl.de

Use as: http://safeurl.de/http://www.vbulletin.org


Nice plugin ;] *installed*

why, what's wrong with http://anonym.to/?

what makes this better then http://anonym.to/... i'm honestly curious.

Ask serhat_kk; he wanted another link...

well technically he wanted a better link... to which you replied, so i was just curious why one would be better then another?

Actually,

Perhaps he just wants some diversification. :)


Personally, I use http://d0x.de/. Dont really have a reason why (theyre both equal in terms of speed/anonymity) just like to go w/something different. :banana:

Actually,
either or i guess.

BUG report:
When try to post link like that
http://files.test.com/test.file-[www.test.com].rar
http://files.test.com/test.file-[http://www.test.com].rar
I.e. with links to domain in files names, we'll get
(without spaces).

UPDATED
Oops.... Sory it's not a bug of this hack :(. vB convert it like that.

Thank you for this great plugin.

i've read a suggestion to use the google translator tool (with the options as en to en). such as: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=

in front of the url in the anonymizer plugin.

any thoughts on this? do you guys feel it's as 'good' as using one of the free anon websites?

reason i ask is because several of my users' companies have most of the anonymizer websites blocked.

thanks!

All right, a problem.

When I quote a post with a url in it, it also adds the anonym.de prefix to the already prefixed url in the original post, thus repeating it twice in the quotes.

Or is that just me?

installed and so far perfect


being as ignorant as i am... how would one institute this into shout box? say vBShout 2.0

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

works like a charm :) thanks

Found small bug: links in sugnatures are not anonimyzed. Could that be fixed? :rolleyes:

Thanks Marco

I did update :)

I would also like to see this in signatures :D

Nevermind!

I have a problem with this product. I have my own anonymizer on the same domain as my board in the directory /anon/ . Unfortunately when I change the anonymizer service to my script http://mydomain.com/anon/? all links are parsed to http://mydomain.com/anon/ and the real link is cut off. Can you please help me with this issue?

Signatures have never been the aim of this modification. I currently don't have time to add this, but maybe another member is willing to add that part.

I have never tried to use it in combination with a local anonymizer. It should work like any other though, all that is done, is a string added in front of the real url.

My guess is that this maybe get corrupted by rewrite rules on your server. You could try to create a special (sub-)domain (pointing to the same server), maybe that would help.

Anyway to give a better educated guess, i would need to see real link, if you want you can sent them to me by pm.

Hi folks,

I added signature support to this mod and a SEO relevant parameter rel="nofollow" to all external links.

I also changed the version number to 1.11, I hope that is ok.

Ciao...