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JohnFentoday at 4:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

Because I wouldn't want Google to know what links I click on. When I used to use Google, and they added such redirects that included the destination URL as a parameter, I'd edit the link to make it just that URL before resolving it. This new scheme would make that impossible.


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brainwadtoday at 5:44 AM

They own the JS on the page, they don't need the redirects to know where you clicked...

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whattoday at 5:23 AM

They already knew which links you clicked on though…

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