blankrefer.com is down - any alternatives?

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Been using blankrefer.com script for quite a while on most of my outbound links..but its been down the past few days.

And the script was hosted on their web server http://blankrefer.com/links.js

Code:
<!--links--><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
<a 
href="http://www.myspace.com">MySpace</a>
<a 
href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>
<a href="http://www.Craigslist.org">Craigslist</a>
<!--links-->

<!--script at the end of the page-->
<script 
src="http://blankrefer.com/links.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script 
type="text/javascript"><!--
protected_links = "myspace,ebay";

blank_refer();
//--></script>
<!--script at the end of the page-->

Code:
[B][I]Instructions:[/I][/B]

[FONT=Times]All you need to do is embedded the code at the bottom of the website. It redirects all the links via blankrefer.com - except for the sites that were included in the protected_links tag. In vBulletin, for example, you can include the script code in the footer of the global templates (Styles&Templates - Global templates - Footer). In Wordpress, use the footer.php. Since the script can only anonymize links that have already been loaded at runtime, it's a good idea to place the code as close to the end as possible. Otherwise, links that appear after the script code would not be redirected via BlankRefer.com.[/FONT]

Any recommended alternatives? I don't want anything that visually runs through another site eg
http://dereferer.info - looks bad to users!

Or any idea about the script?

How difficult is it to setup something like this yourself?

Could a Wordpress plugin like wptraffic tools be used?

Thanks in advance
 
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It's really easy to setup yourself.
I would make my own solution but to get you going, search for "double meta refresh".
 
Thanks, but not sure I'm capable of that!

Found http://letsw.com/ however it is not perfect as it shows referer as being "http://letsw.com/?jump=" (via http://www.whatismyreferer.com/ ) - I would prefer it to be blank ;)
 
So I've been using http://letsw.com/ for a while - it was easy for me to setup (I use Wordpress)...however it's stealing a lot of my traffic :(

Any other suggestions for outbound link anonymize?

Tools/scripts as above....or if anyone wants to give me a price for creating something please do.

Thanks
 
How many clicks a day are you handling?

Self-hosted solution is the best or if you are using WP, there are many plugins that can do this (like PrettyLink)
 
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