Anonymize Your Links To Stories Posted Here

[bbachtung]

There has been talk about links to MSM / blogs in posts here being traced back to this forum with negative consequences (including making media outlets think that this forum is organizing a group of "spammers" to post responses at their websites).

The following is a good tool to prevent this sort of tracing back to the forum:

http://www.gulli.com/english/anonym-to/

Or, try the anonymized link to the above link:

http://anonym.to/?http://www.gulli.com/english/anonym-to/

[Spirit of '76]

Great idea.

I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.

It's easy, folks. Just put the following at the beginning of any URL you enter here:

http://anonym.to/?

[angelatc]

Can't i use snurl or makeashorterlink and get the same effect?

[Spirit of '76]

Can't i use snurl or makeashorterlink and get the same effect?

I think those just shorten the URL, not strip out the referrer.

[unconsious767]

I've seen forums (pr0n) where the board automatically makes the link go thru an anonymous referrer, dunno if vbulletin has such an option.

Alternately, if you put it in a "Code" box (the # icon above), readers would have to copy and paste the url which would eliminate a referrer.


http://www.example.com

[Darren McFillintheBlank]

..

[Spirit of '76]

I right click on the link, select "Copy Shortcut," paste it into the "Address" box and hit "Enter."

That gives no refferal data.

That works too.

The admins could actually set up VBulletin to automatically anonymize all external links from this board.

[McDermit]

I right click on the link, select "Copy Shortcut," paste it into the "Address" box and hit "Enter."

That gives no refferal data.
I do the same.

This is the best method, since people will get suspicious if they see the same referrer (even if anonymized) for tons of voters.

[Keith]

The admins could actually set up VBulletin to automatically anonymize all external links from this board.

This solution would be ideal if it is not too much work for them.

[inibo]

Direct: http://www.mdconnect.net/~xe/getallheaders.php

Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=125617&posted=1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Via Tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/2sd3x8

Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=125617&posted=1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Via anonym.to: http://anonym.to/?http://www.mdconnect.net/~xe/getallheaders.php

Keep-Alive: 300
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

And the winner is

http://anonym.to/?

Though it still leaves REMOTE_ADDR: intact. That could be important as well.

Open proxies anyone?

[Scott K]

You could ask Josh to install this hack from vbulletin.org: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=143615

It does what your asking for without you having to do anything

[DAZ]

So, has anybody mentioned this to a mod? I guess I'll PM them just in case.