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Nothing's stopping those scripts today from converting all links to bouncing through a redirect domain for tracking, and yet scripts aren't doing that.
by eridius 8y ago
Nothing's stopping those scripts today from converting all links to bouncing through a redirect domain for tracking, and yet scripts aren't doing that.
- 0x0 8y agoThat has UX implications, with the mouseover statusbar link target popup and the right/middle mouse click to copy-url/open-in-new-tab features making it much more obvious.
- acdha 8y agoOkay, so imagine it’s adding click event handlers which use XHR/Beacon to avoid the user-visible rewriting. That’s the same impact but everything is slower and you have edge cases where navigation fails with no user feedback at all.