Add-On Releases - vbAnonymizer

vbAnonymizer

Description:
This is a hack to "anonymize" all outgoing links from your forum to prevent the referrer information from being sent.

Installation:
All the installation information is in the package.

What's different about this one?
Unlike the other anonymizing hacks, this one is integrated with vBulletin, meaning it shows a nice message along with your forum's headers and footers.

Changes:
2 Templates
6 Plugins
2 Files

Other Versions:
vbAnonymizer for 3.7 - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=184267

[Fenriz]

Thank you! With the new 2.8 everything is OK now.

[treasureman]

Strange, this mod has been working well for months and suddenly stopped. So I downloaded the 2.8 version and reinstalled it, overwriting the old version.

Still don't work. I haven't a clue why it stopped working before or how to get it to work again. Using VB 3.6.10 PL 4.

Any ideas?

[Dismounted]

It may be a collision with another modification. Maybe try disabling all modifications except for vbAnonymizer.

[treasureman]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

It may be a collision with another modification. Maybe try disabling all modifications except for vbAnonymizer.

I have been using the same mods together for months, have not added any new mods for months. I can't figure it out.

Do you have an idea what type mod would collide with vbanonymizer?

[Dismounted]

Any modifications that change text inside posts (ie. media embedding mods, etc.).

[treasureman]

Below is a list of mods I have installed, as copied from my admin cp. I don't see any of them that modifies the text within the posts.

Again, I have used these same mods along with VBanonymizer for several months with no problems. Then VBanonymizer stopped working. I upgraded today to VB 3.6.11 PL1 but VBanonymizer still doesn't work:

Archive Adsense 1.0 Adds Adsense banners to the top and bottom of your archive pages.

Ban Thread User 3.6.0 Ban A Particular User From A Thread

Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager 2.4 Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager

Limited Guest Viewing 1.0.5 Limit guests to view a set number of threads before being locked out.

Member Bots 1.0 Places search engine bots into Registered Users group

Mobile Device Force Style 2.1.3b Force Mobile Device Users to Specific Style

Multiple Account Registration Prevention 1.0.2 Using the cookies for AE Detector, this will prevent a user from registering if multiple accounts are detected.

Multiple Login Detector 1.01 Cookie-based multiple account login detector

New Thread Notification 1.02 Instant email notification for new threads posted in a forum.

Prevent bumping old Threads 1.0.1 This Hack prevents Users from bumping old Threads

Prevent Character Abuse In Posts 1.1 This mod prevents multiple characters from being used in posts.

Restrict Seachs by Daniel Bembibre 1.0.1 Restrict search when the server has high load

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.0.5 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

vbAnonymizer 2.8 This product will make all outgoing URL's have no referrer.

vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator 2.0 Generate a Google & Yahoo Sitemap for your Forums

Webforumz :: Better PM Notification 1.0 Replaces the rather dull javascript alert notification with a classy DHTML notification.

[treasureman]

Update: I installed the other anonymizer mod from this board and it worked fine. So I guess I will give up on fixing yours and use that one.

However I do like yours better because it has the redirect page, plus the countdown. Again, I used it successfully for months, but can't get it to work now. I uninstalled, reinstalled, but no joy.

Thanks for your help anyway.

[snotek]

I cannot get this mod to work either. All URLs in public forums remain the same and link directly to the site. No redirects at all. Running vB 3.6.11 PL1 and vBSEO 3.1.0. I have a handful of other mods if you need a list.

This is a desperately needed modification as we have already been hit with phish attempts wherein a user PM'd a bunch of mods with a link to a thread that "needed their attention." The visible link and the actual link were not the same. It took them to a site that looked identical to ours and asked for their credentials, after "logging in again" it redirected to the thread in question.

Obviously they were able to get a few mods credentials and cause some trouble on the board.

So we need a MySpace like redirect page telling members that they are LEAVING our site and should NOT enter any credentials. Your hack is PERFECT for this - if it only worked.

What are our support options?

[Dismounted]

Modification Updated!

3/10/2008 - Version 3.0
- Rewrite of Code to Streamline for Efficency
- Fixed Local URL Issues
- Fixed No Follow Attribute Issues
- Renamed Local URLs list to Whitelist
- Added Ability to Rename 'redirector.php'

You can actually see the streamlining even if you cannot code PHP. Look at the size of 2.9 (115.5 KB), compared to 2.8 (155.9 KB).

[koorosh1]

it is a nice hack but i have 2 problem with it and i cant read this 28 pages to see whether it was explaned or not

1: if you load your forum with WWW (www.forumname.com) then http://forumname.com is an external page ! and if you load your forum without WWW ( http://forumname.com) then

www.forumname.com is an external link

2: image that your footer of forum has a high-loading time script (for example a weak counter code ) there for you must stay to complet loading of it and whole page and then you will be redirected i think it is better there wont be any relevancy between perfermence of this hack and complete loading of the page