I just blogged about this and wanted to be sure everyone here knows. CJ just announced that JavaScript links are simply an optional way to create links and will be removing JS as the default link format. I'd give Commission Junction kudos for listening, except they put everyone through too much hell for too long with this badly thought out initiative. They are now calling HTML links what they are, as opposed to calling them by their LMI term "Legacy" links. So without admitting how much they blew it on this one, they are quietly trying to go back to business as usual. I always feel a company can gain so much more favor and credibility in bad situations like this to just openly admit they made a mistake, listened to the people, thank them for their feedback and then correct it. If you go past the announcement on the home page and dig into the FAQ the bright orange changes clearly spell things out. I feel pretty certain that the main impetus for them changing and finally backing down is the upcoming CJU convention. CJU typically sells out in days. Here we are with less than a month to go and the convention has still not sold out. I think they got everyone's message loud and clear and realized if they didn't back down quick, the whole conference would be focused on how stupid and wrong the entire LMI mess was.
Yea saw it as well. I'm also happy that other affiliate programms didn't jump on this crap as well and switched to js links. Back to normal now!