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This doesn't seem to be new, there's a Medium post from a year ago[1] talking about how the "data-saferedirecturl" attribute is used by Google to track clicks w
by hnarn 6y ago
This doesn't seem to be new, there's a Medium post from a year ago[1] talking about how the "data-saferedirecturl" attribute is used by Google to track clicks with Javascript, there's a question on support.google.com[2] with 100+ upvotes and no response asking what this attribute is for and how to disable it, and it even shows up in an internal (at least, targeted towards internal readers) U.S. Department of the Interior page which explicitly states that employees should not paste links from Google[3].
It's worth noting that this also happens on the "HTML version" of Gmail.
[1]: https://medium.com/@ohadinho25/googles-gmail-tracks-link-clicks-in-e-mail-messages-281c47a9d48a https://medium.com/@ohadinho25/googles-gmail-tracks-link-cli...
[2]: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/12875647 https://support.google.com/mail/thread/12875647
[3]: https://www.doi.gov/employees/drupal/links https://www.doi.gov/employees/drupal/links
- justaj 6y agoThis was already happening in the HTML version of Gmail, like well a couple of years before as I remember.