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That’s a good point! Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener. I wonder if/when adblockers will take care of that as well (resolve the lin
by tomp 8y ago
That’s a good point! Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener. I wonder if/when adblockers will take care of that as well (resolve the link once then cache it).
- mnx 8y agoThere's actually no need to resolve it. At least so far, they put the full url in the page source. I have a proof of concept extension already coded up for removing the redirects. I plan on adding a bunch of other sites (google, facebook, whatever else) and releasing it.
- ceejayoz 8y ago> Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener. Perfect for measuring raw HTTP requests, sure, but if you post a link to a brand new, zero-follower account you'll still get a few dozen bots that are doing link analysis against the Twitter firehose (well, a random sampling of it).