Why conceal the donate link behind a link shortener? And on yet another creepy surveillance related story. I can't be the only one that sees the irony here. Ti

Why conceal the donate link behind a link shortener? And on yet another creepy surveillance related story. I can't be the only one that sees the irony here. TinyURL allows previewing of links by adding 'preview' as a subdomain, like so: http://preview.tinyurl.com/m65n4ko http://preview.tinyurl.com/m65n4ko Now we can see where your link really takes us, to a PayPal donate page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s- https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s- xclick&hosted_button_id=7BCR4A5W9PNN4 This way, you can still have your (unnecessary) click tracking while still giving the reader choice. I think you used a link shortener only to track clicks, since there is no 140 character limit here on HN. Ask yourself if this practice is really necessary.