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SnowHill9902
on July 17, 2022
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Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter p...
It can be subverted: make Firefox touch the “encrypted” URL to see what it links to, then serve the cleartext URL.
jefftk
on July 18, 2022
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That still gets them their cross-site analytics, since the encrypted URL is only accessed when you're visiting the page.
askvictor
on July 18, 2022
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Depends on how many URLs on are on the page; if there are 20 (encrypted) urls, and the browser touches each of them, but the user only follows one of them, the data FB gets is much less useful.
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