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Good for both Firefox and Chrome. Does this mean Gmail can stop rewriting links in emails (ostensibly to derefer)?
by ethbr0 6y ago
Good for both Firefox and Chrome.
Does this mean Gmail can stop rewriting links in emails (ostensibly to derefer)?
- kevincox 6y agoI'm pretty sure they could have done this years ago as most browsers supported setting the policy explicitly for years. This only changes the default policy. The only reason I can see Google still doing rewriting is to protect very old browsers and laziness.
- lupire 6y agoPresumably no because they also probably use it for analytics and/or security (blocking malware URLs)
- Arnavion 6y agoIndeed. If not sending referer was the only reason, gmail would never have needed to rewrite the link since it could've just used `rel=noreferrer` on the original anchor tags instead.
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- Larrikin 6y agoAre there any extensions that can rewrite these in the meantime?
- smichel17 6y agoNot using gmail works
- bjornstar 6y agoI wrote Intercept Redirect to skip these redirect services. It doesn't change the URLs that appear on sites but intercepts the requests and instantly redirects them to the intended URL. It also requests the are minimum of permissions and collects no data.
- greggman3 6y agodoes gmail rewrite links? AFAIK it's not rewriting any of the links in my emails. Maybe I have some setting or environment where it doesn't