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It appears to rewrite a URL of the form https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/... https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/.... to https://www.amazon.com/b?... https://www.ama
by gpvos 9y ago
It appears to rewrite a URL of the form https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/... https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/.... to https://www.amazon.com/b?... https://www.amazon.com/b?.... . This means it either has a (possibly huge) database of rewrite rules that needs to be kept up-to-date, or communicates with yet another Google API. Probably the latter, leaking even more of your browsing history to Google.
- kodablah 9y agoYour links are broken. Regardless, do a view-source and look for `<link rel="canonical` and I believe that is what is being used.
- gpvos 9y agoNot broken, but "of the form", with dots where variant stuff goes. (Edit: okay, HN mangled them a bit; I changed them a little.)
- reificator 9y agoOr it could just as easily be using the canonical links in the head of the page. Jumping straight to malice when the answer could be simple and benign is incredibly harmful. It undermines efforts to shine a light on truly malicious behavior.
- gpvos 9y agoI totally forgot that there could be a canonical link in the head of a page. Apologies for that.