alt Hacker NewsFunny how how all the links, including the ones to their own pages, are routed through google.com/url, e.g. the link "Assets Available to Download". Usually tracking isn't quite this visible.
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afandian • last Tuesday at 11:32 AM
It is very odd. I don’t see a good reason, not even tracking.
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philsnow • last Tuesday at 5:35 PM
The ios gmail app does the same thing, but why? I would assume the app could just transparently relay the click through its already-open grpc channel to google's servers, and it would be faster for them and (more importantly) for me.
cfn • last Tuesday at 2:52 PM
And when I click them I get a page with "Did you mean netflix.com? The site you just tried to visit looks fake. Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL." which then sends me to the Netfçix home page. Chrome on MacOS.
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It's because their blog is hosted on blogger.com (yeah, weird decision), which is owned by Google and does that by default.