Techdirt points to a story about how Livejournal has apparently been hijacking user links to ecommerce sites, and substituting its own affiliate codes.
I was concerned about the possibility of shady behavior when Livejournal was sold to the Russian firm, and it looks like I was right to have doubts.
I’ve been seriously considering ditching LJ in favor of a stand-alone branded website running WordPress. Time to think about that a bit more.