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"""The Atlantic first identified "dark social" traffic back in 2012 to describe traffic coming messaging apps that had been stripped of referrer data because me
by anewhnaccount 12y ago
"""The Atlantic first identified "dark social" traffic back in 2012 to describe traffic coming messaging apps that had been stripped of referrer data because messaging and email use the secure "HTTPS" system rather than the open "HTTP" system used by web pages.
Excuse me?! How does this trash get published?
- higherpurpose 12y agoHow does any BusinessInsider trash get on the front page of HN would be the more relevant question.
- 37prime 12y agoIt is BSinsider, so it is BS as usual.
- Mithaldu 12y agoFun thing: I went on twitter to tell him his editor missed fact checking on that completely. Turns out the author of the piece is "Founding editor of Business Insider U.K.". Update: He has replied and said he would look into it and correct it. Being that he's aware of the discussion here, i suspect other things might get corrected too. :) https://twitter.com/Jim_Edwards/status/529588985690337280 https://twitter.com/Jim_Edwards/status/529588985690337280
- aikah 12y agoHow can one trust anything that website says after this kind of statement? because clearly,these guys dont know what they are talking about. pretty sure they dont know what HTTP is and what a header is. How many factual errors in other articles that dont deal with the web?