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What could they be doing with all those redirects?

• p_l 6y ago
  Run you through all the spying services' cookies & other fingerprinters. Just like Twitter's t.co.
  • larkeith 6y ago
    IIRC you can mitigate this by lowering network.http.redirection-limit
    • jooize 6y ago
      Wouldn't that prevent reaching the page?
      • p_l 6y ago
        It would prevent reaching the page, and still give your contact to trackers - you might just prevent one of the last ones from running.
• SquareWheel 6y ago
  The first two are often: nytimes.com > https://nytimes.com https://nytimes.com > https://www.nytimes.com And from there, who knows. Some websites append a trailing slash; sometimes they removed it. Some websites send you to /index.php or /home.aspx rather than sitting in the root. Subpages may use a redirect to update a slug if there's been a title change. Or maybe the website just moved to a new format altogether and is updating old links. I have seen examples of 4 or 5 legitimate redirects to send users to the correct place. I'm having trouble coming up with 10 possible reasons, though.