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There is link-tracking on this article, and that's fine -- whatever. What blows my mind is how my browser (latest firefox) is seemingly enabling it. When you ho

There is link-tracking on this article, and that's fine -- whatever. What blows my mind is how my browser (latest firefox) is seemingly enabling it. When you hover over the first link, it clearly shows in the bottom left corner that it will link to 'wikifeet.com', but if you actually click the link, my adblocker stops me from being redirected to 'redirectingat.com'. Why does my browser lie to me like this? edit: inspect element clearly shows <a href="https://www.wikifeet.com/Laura_Bassett"> my wikiFeet page</a> What's going on here? Is it replacing the links on mousedown?

detaro 6y ago
The alternative would be showing "I can't tell you what happens if you click here". An interesting question if that's better or not. > What's going on here? Is it replacing the links on mousedown? Yes. Observe what happens to the URL shown when you right-click the link.
polote 6y ago
> Is it replacing the links on mousedown? Yes, mousedown replace the href attribute, and then a few milliseconds after put the original link back. To debug that king of thing, you just put a break point on attribute modification of the link attributes, and you will see there is js triggered