Slashdot | AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal
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Last week, AOL began blocking all HTTP requests with ‘www.livejournal.com’ Referer headers. This is a common practice by image hosting sites to prevent off-site linking of their images and ‘bandwidth theft’. However, in AOL’s case, they’re blocking everything, not just images, effectively breaking all links to any AOL member’s site–but only from LiveJournal. To be clear: nobody on LiveJournal can even make a link to any AOL member site without getting a ‘404 Not Found’ error.
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