Wispy2891@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMy "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening ratelemmy.worldimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1134arrow-down1imageMy "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening ratelemmy.worldWispy2891@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·2 months 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-up3·2 months agoYou sure it’s not WhatsApp that’s link-shortening?
minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·2 months 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
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