Wispy2891@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMy "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rateimagemessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1140arrow-down1imageMy "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rateWispy2891@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square46linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·3 days agoThey detect sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link only on that case. It didn’t do this yesterday so there’s a chance it’s on a/b testing
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoYou sure it’s not WhatsApp that’s link-shortening?
minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·3 days agoYes because the option to remove the advertisement link is inside Firefox. It might be that meta and Mozilla got some monetary agreement and this is even worse
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoAh, I missed that part of the conversation
They detect sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link only on that case. It didn’t do this yesterday so there’s a chance it’s on a/b testing
You sure it’s not WhatsApp that’s link-shortening?
Yes because the option to remove the advertisement link is inside Firefox. It might be that meta and Mozilla got some monetary agreement and this is even worse
Ah, I missed that part of the conversation