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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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They never needed to redirect to do that in the first place. It's probably just done for convenience. Websites quietly tracking outgoing links has been technically possible since the '90s.
For reference you can disable this with unlock origin https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/pull/27500
Would the URLcheck app on android filter this out, or not because of the way it's being done?
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As someone who ran a popular link shortening platform let me tell you how difficult it is to curtail spam links.
This is likely a way to warn users before being forwarded to fraudulent websites that a link has been marked as spam.
There are many other use cases for this redirect as well but this is the most obvious for user safety.