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[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 5 days ago (9 children)

They already know your IP address, you're using their website/app.

It's either to track outbound clicks (And potentially block them if they're harmful, YouTube and Steam do that), or a much more unlikely option is to hide the referrer from the target site (Since browsers have better ways to handle that now, but old ones don't)

[โ€“] brbposting 5 points 5 days ago

track outbound clicks (And potentially block them if they're harmful, YouTube and Steam do that)

Google & Meta & Discord doing the same?

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