This is taken straight from the code on the FA mainsite:
According to the website of Viglink:<script type="text/javascript"> var vglnk = { api_url: '//api.viglink.com/api', key: '65d956b58785ef9fd27b896d25c9e1ba' }; (function(d, t) { var s = d.createElement(t); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? vglnk.api_url : '//cdn.viglink.com/api') + '/vglnk.js'; var r = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; r.parentNode.insertBefore(s, r); }(document, 'script')); </script>
This is a direct, blatant violation of the FurAffinity Terms of Service. I quote:How It Works
If one of your users clicks through to a product or service and buys something, you earn a commission. You only pay us a share of what you earn.
Powerful Analytics
Track where users are going when they leave your site, understand which links and pages are driving the most revenue and to which merchants, and much more.
Tracking where people go when they leave the site (using a third party, no less) is without a doubt active data collection.Fur Affinity does not engage in active data collection of its users. Your personal information will not be resold or distributed except within the Fur Affinity network (main site, forums).
EDIT: Not disclosing this is apparently a violation of federal law.
Yeah. Ya dun goof'd.Most users do not notice on their own although we highly recommend you disclose it. VigLink does not change the user experience one bit. No links are inserted or removed on the page, there are no double-underlines or pop-ups, and mousing over a link looks "clean."
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