Active Link Security 3.0

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This hack will allow you to have active links on your forum but with security knowing the place were you are linking to wont know were you came from. Ie. If you click on a link in a post on your web site, the web site you go to will not know were you came from.

Time: Less then 1 minute

Files to edit: 1

Instructions:

Open includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php.

If your installing for the first time:
Find:

PHP Code:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>"; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

return "<a href=\"http://www.anonym.to/?$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>"; 


OR

Replace with:

PHP Code:

return "<a href=\"http://en.safeurl.de/?$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>"; 


No screenshots needed. Also, please click ?install? if you use.

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Abe1

This hack will allow you to have active links on your forum but with security knowing the place were you are linking to wont know were you came from. Ie. If you click on a link in a post on your web site, the web site you go to will not know were you came from.

Time: Less then 1 minute

Files to edit: 1

Instructions:

Open includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php.

Find:

PHP Code:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>"; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

return "<a href=\"http://www.anonym.to/?$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>"; 


No screenshots needed. Also, please click ?install? if you use.

Why would someone want to hide where they came from?

[DrkFusion]

Originally Posted by floris

Why would someone want to hide where they came from?

Whilst visiting sites of inappropriate nature. Is the only good reason I get for this hack *lol*.

Otherwise still a small but useful mod.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Merjawy

I modded the file and tested it... its not working

I still show where I came from


EDIT: using vB3.0.3

Did you see the black screen with it saying were you were going after you would use the link? Remember, this is only for threads and posts. Not for your own links you make for the forum.

[Merjawy]

no black at all

and I understand what kind of links

I posted a test thread putting a link in the thread then I clicked it

I posted the link normaly and also posted it via bbcode
and tried both, no different than doing it without the hack,, that site still says which site and thread ID where I came from

[Merjawy]

Well, tonight oddly I checked the same link again.. ( I did not change anything since yesterday) and sure enough.. I got the black screen (so quick I couldn't even read 1 word in it ) and sure thing, the site did not tell me where I was coming from


but also noticed I am using proxy now (forgot I did)

so I am not sure whats going on.. I will remove the proxy and use my real IP and try again later


laterz

[cditty]

Good hack. Anyone know of another service that does this without the black page? I'm afraid my users would freak if they saw this. Esp with all the parasiteware stuff out there.

Chris

[Merjawy]

it sure works now.. no idea why it didn't at first, but left it as it is for a day and next day it was working.. could be cach or whatever

great

now I second the concern above, that black page and also in german I think is a bit of a concern

this is the link I created in my post and once you click it, you get the black page with this line

Sie werden in einer Sekunde zu http://privacy.net/analyze/ weitergeleitet.

[Reimer]

By the way: The first service which had offered this kind of service was safeurl.de - created by myself. In fact, there is nothing speciel behind it - it is a simple redirect which blocks the refererer. I remember that many porn and warez sites like safeurl

After all I sold safeurl a year ago...

[Zaeolos]

Originally Posted by floris

Why would someone want to hide where they came from?

Because some sites may want to keep competitor sites from knowing they are there when members link to those sites.

Great job for finding this!

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nice hack