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Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
- jtbayly 4y agoI've often read on HN people accusing developers of being complicit and asking how anybody could agree to do XY&Z. This is one place where I am left asking the same question. How could this ever be anything except anti-user? Link shorteners are one thing, and random unique IDs in a URL are understandable, but in what world does encrypting the URL do anything except harm the user?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoRight. What would that ticket title even look like?
- whateveracct 4y ago"Users are stripping tracking info from our URLs. Data is our lifeblood - we need some way to stop them from doing this!!" -- Your friendly neighborhood PM
- krallja 4y ago“Encrypt URLs to prevent stripping”
- nojito 4y agoUsers don't care about URLS. As long as their link takes them to where they are going, they will happily click on it and share it.
- eesmith 4y agoPerhaps something like: We provide services to people in exchange for advertising revenue. Some people try to abuse this agreement through URL stripping. That means those who don't URL strip are subsidizing those who do. This isn't fair, so we will use technical methods to prevent it from happening.
- lapcat 4y agoDupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129100 from 1 day ago (210 comments)
- zinekeller 4y agoActually, dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489 (is HN a valid citation? ;)
- unixbane 4y agoa decentralized alternative supporting user concerns instead of corpo crap is trivial to implement