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		<title>MySpace Masks Links for Spam</title>
		<link>http://liquidparallax.com/2007/07/04/myspace-masks-links-for-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure when they did it since I&#8217;m not a constant user, but MySpace has come out with another flawed improvement on their site. All external links are hidden behind msplinks.com redirects. What does this mean? Well, when you hover over a link that leaves myspace, you&#8217;ll see in your status bar a link to http://www.msplinks.com/randomstring1Y29tLw== instead of the actual site. Tom&#8217;s reasoning for this is to deter spammers from linking because the redirect can intercept the URL if it is spam. Another reason they are doing this is to look better in the eyes of Google and to disassociate with bad neighborwebs. Sites that link to spam or are related to spam in some way are knocked down in their standing. Although it means well, this is a big step backwards from a web design and usability standpoint. I think it an essential feature of internet browsing that I can preview the location of a page. Now when I want to click a link, I don&#8217;t know if where it will take me. So now I must rely on myspace&#8217;s judgment to decide for me. And to top it all off, now users are going to behave differently [...]]]></description>
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