March 16, 2007
Linkshare Rights a Wrong
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I hate repeating news that can be read elsewhere, but I promised someone at Linkshare that I’d write something positive when they got rid of the CAPTCHA check.
And gosh darn it, they’ve done it. And they got rid of the 90-day password expiration along with it. So here’s a big atta-boy for this one. It’s a sight to behold.
Now that didn’t hurt at all, did it?
I predict that this one small move will at least double activity in the Linkshare inferface, which can only be good for everybody involved. Of course we’ll never see those stats, which makes it even easier for me to make such a prediction. 
I wonder if they’ve chilled out on AffTrack as well. AffTrack is an affiliate stats aggregator which slurps reports from the major networks to consolidate for its users, and what is thought to be the primary impetus for the CAPTCHA check in the first place.
OK, so maybe it did hurt a little in an eat crow sort of way.
Since it’s been covered before, here’s a little link love to those who covered this previously:
Pranav at FinalTag
Trust on BUMPzee (discussion going on)
Shawn at AffiliateTip
One hurdle down, another to go. While you’ve got the code cracked open, please, please get rid of the “you are invalid” legal message/insult that I have had to click past every time I log in nearly for the past two years.
Great question about AffTrack! I would love to see my LinkShare merchants included there again.
It is indeed a great move. It was really a pain to write captcha text everytime you login. Also the Expiry removal is a good move.
Thumbs Up!
i just launched an LS program after many launches with Befree, CJ, Shareasale, AvantLink and others. None of these apps subjected me to a security code. The LS Captcha was useless and slowed down my access to the admin area, good riddance. If you had anything to do with removing this annoyance, good for you.
It’s amazing how annoying captcha visual confirmation can be. I’m used to it on ticketmaster, but no other affiliate system uses it. Good riddance captcha!
Scott,
My “invalid legal message” is gone! I guess thanks to you
Scott,
My “invalid legal message” is gone! I guess thanks to you
The captcha was annoying, but the 90 day password change was even more of a pain for me. I understand that it's a good habit to switch up pw's every 90 days or so (if not more frequently), but I doubt that they have had any significant surge in security breaches at LS. I'm wrong alot though…maybe this is one of those times?!
Captcha is useful thing. What whould you do, if someones doorway profi will have your registry form in it's list?
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