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Question: When I click in my Gmail android app on a link from a received E-Mail, the opened Firefox browser opens a google domain for a second and only after t
by sir_brickalot 3y ago
Question:
When I click in my Gmail android app on a link from a received E-Mail, the opened Firefox browser opens a google domain for a second and only after that the domain from the link opens... any idea what that is? Tracking?
- jeffbee 3y agoGoogle bounces all URLs through a redirector which strips referrer information and also allows them to warn about malware sites that were identified after the message itself was classified and delivered.
- sir_brickalot 3y agoI would like to test that but when clicking different links I get mixed results. The URLs get modified alright but a lot of referrer info seems to not get removed. I guess its just Google collecting one more metric.
- Szpadel 3y agoi think this is to remove real referer url from header, as this behavior is also present when you use web version of Gmail. but with that solution tracking is also possible
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- xahrepap 3y agoIt's for security. Checking against a list of banned URLs, etc. When you have user-submitted content, protecting your users from bad URLs is important. Also, I'm sure they're doing plenty of click tracking too :)