Hey MySpace, MSPlinks.com redirects are not acceptable

msplinks sucks big time. Your worried user above is probably only seeing the behaviour of an msplinks redirect when the browser has Referer: logging turned off, but the phishing risk is very real and myspaz’s attempts to make out that it is a useful anti-phishing measure are merely a bad joke.

msplinks also kills SEO karma.

See http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/crapstuff/msplinks.html for a javascript bookmarklet to deobfuscate msplinks, convert them back to the original URLs.

It would be preferable to be able to see where the links actually point. No question.

Myspace: Liars, bullsh*tters, greedy bastards, terrible web masters. That said, MSPLINKS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Take them off!! They are deceiving and a complete PITA!

I have a my space page but I must confess that I have yet to come across this problem.
As an affiliate marketer i am used to the concept of cloaked links.

From the post above, the problem is not that the links are cloaked, the problem is that the destination URL is not as advertized. That really is a major problem and even if done with good intentions does not imbibe confidence in MSPLinks or myspace for choosing to use them

For those of you who are interested their is still an easy way to get around Msplinks. All you have to do is use the following code as a myspace comment:

Instead of using the usual “LINK TEXT

*The double quote at end of url is not an error!

I guess my last comment got cropped or the code was removed. If you go to this link and scroll to Lance Lemons response on the bottom it tells you how to get around MSplinks:

http://www.ahfb2000.com/webmaster_help_desk/showthread.php?t=8491

Thanks for alerting us to this issue. Great post.

Don’t try that, it absolutely does not work. You cannot use the word form inside of

I’m surprised you claimed it worked as recent as march 16th, you’re wrong, your method has been disabled for months now

Yea it does work.
I just tested it and it does exactly what Ive been looking for.

Myspace does not only encode the outgoing links, but for some reason they randomly expire after a period of time, which makes you start all over with finding what URL you actually used.

I’m glad it did work for me.. Maybe you did something wrong.

I haven’t tried it on comments yet, though.. I would imagine that using forms in comments is not something myspace will allow.

Now even music pages have links as msp links. I notice some do and some don’t but if I make a change to an existing link, it changes to become an msp link now.

Is there a way to change the mps links back to read properly? They make it very hard to trust a link enough to click it.

I just write the links in plain text. Problem solved.

I was worried I had phishing stuff on my computer causing this problem. Arg. It is annoying and doesn’t seem safe. i see what you mean!

I hate that no video codes I find anywhere online including the videocure ones that used to work perfect now don’t work at all thanks to this msplink junk, can anyone tell me a work around I had a video code that worked I had done a google search like right after they changed to this msplink junk and I did not save the working one, so I don’t know how I got it to work something I changed in the videocure code I tried google but it’s useless now the work around I found originally has been taken down it still worked though that video played today even before I tried to change it to a different video, so I don’t know why they would remove the method of how to fix the code from google.

If Myspace was really concerned about spammers, you couldn’t get rid of their captcha’s for a mere $20.00 Are we to suppose spammers can’t find $20.00?

I’m growing suspicious that spam quits being spam, as soon as you pay Myspace. My site is blocked and I don’t even sell anything.

Down with redirects!!

Its better and safer for users to be able to see the url of the link they are about to click!!!!