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Re:Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliat... by jmtulloss on Friday April 30, 2010 @05:59PM (#1309538)
That's a bit silly, their whole draw is in the fact that they change your content. If you have a youtube link, they turn that into a youtube embed. If you have http://..., they change that into an anchor. There are dozens of examples of content that you can put in an email and they will transform into something more useful, and this is generally regarded as being quite valuable.

If you have a problem with posterous manipulating your content, you should probably be hosting your own content.

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Re:Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliat... by jtarud on Friday April 30, 2010 @06:14PM (#1309584)
I agree here, Posterous is free and a dam great service. If you want full control code your own blog or go the wordpress custom install way. They need to monetize somehow.
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Re:Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliat... by babar on Friday April 30, 2010 @06:16PM (#1309591)
They could be more transparent about their usage of this, since it isn't indicated anywhere on their admin pages, especially for people who may have been using their own affiliate links which are being overwritten.

Having a paid version which would disable this would be another nice option for them to provide.

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