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How does one block spam URLs using a link shortener? I've only ever seen shorteners used to bypass blocks And for tracking, as you say. This would be understan
by Aachen 2y ago
How does one block spam URLs using a link shortener? I've only ever seen shorteners used to bypass blocks
And for tracking, as you say. This would be understandable when the person sharing the link doesn't run the web server and can't simply look in access logs to find click rates, but then what they end up doing is giving everyone a unique link using marketing software and it can be tracked exactly who opened which link at what time on an individual level, as if that's necessary
- freedomben 2y agoThe tracking is the real reason for it in the majority of cases it is used IMHO. The other rationalizations are things that humans do to help convince themselves that there's more nuance so what they're doing isn't nearly as naked self-interest as it seems. I'm thinking of Twitter's shortener for example. Self-hosted/small stuff used for SMS reasons for example (on a domain owned by the same org) are a different bag.