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I can see urls eventually being thousands of characters long with referral links daisy chained.
by berbec 8y ago
I can see urls eventually being thousands of characters long with referral links daisy chained.
- cremp 8y agoSome already are. A lot of malicious links are just base64'ed to another redirect service; to another base64'ed address (continue as long as your head can keep up.)
- chopin 8y agoI'd expect something like uBlock stripping this off.
- kageneko 8y agoI use Neat URL[0] with Firefox to strip things like that from URLs. 0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
- guitarbill 8y agoThat's cool, but only really protects the surfer. Instead of stripping them, you could also either fill them with garbage values, or with more effort, swap the parameters with another link. This would degrade the analytics results, but might be harder to detect. And if enough people used it, you'd get some kind of herd tracking immunity.
- jphalimi 8y agoDo you know if the rewrite happens before a user clicks a link? If it happens after, the data ends up actually being sent out to their server...
- wolco 8y agoIf I remember there is a 1024 character limit.
- extra88 8y agoThere isn't. HTTP doesn't define a limit but browsers, servers, and other software can. A quick google search turns up multiple places referring to Internet Explorer's limit being 2,083 characters and other browsers' being tens of thousands of characters. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15090220/maximum-length-for-url-in-chrome-browser https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15090220/maximum-length-...