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Unfortunately in this case you've gone to the HN comments and been misinformed. GP misunderstood the problem. This issue is about Google adding tracking links
by tomjakubowski 3y ago
Unfortunately in this case you've gone to the HN comments and been misinformed. GP misunderstood the problem. This issue is about Google adding tracking links to links in _HTML exports_ of Google docs.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoI'm not misinformed. There are other comments here that make that point, and I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779383 is a reasonable rejoinder. I think it's fair to argue that exported files should not have redirect links enabled, but as a software engineer I can imagine the complexity involved, or that there are still reasonable malware concerns. Perhaps the decision to have the exports include the redirects should be re-evaluated, but I certainly wouldn't attribute it to malice.