What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.
This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like firefox.com for maximum tracking analysis
That’s a helpful analysis! So there is zero tracking in there. It is just anonymous measurement of a campaign, which is perfectly fine. It is NOT person specific.
What i didn’t understand is if this link to Firefox was inserted by you at all. It looks like it was appended to a completely unrelated link that you wanted to share. So Firefox hijacked your message to insert a second link. Is that correct? Because that would infuriate me. I found this seeing in my Firefox and it defaulted to be active.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if i see domain.tld/garbage i have to assume they did it for tracking, not the opposite
Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
No, that’s wrong. All url shorteners work exactly like that. How did you get the initial link anyway?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.
This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like firefox.com for maximum tracking analysis
Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
That’s a helpful analysis! So there is zero tracking in there. It is just anonymous measurement of a campaign, which is perfectly fine. It is NOT person specific.
What i didn’t understand is if this link to Firefox was inserted by you at all. It looks like it was appended to a completely unrelated link that you wanted to share. So Firefox hijacked your message to insert a second link. Is that correct? Because that would infuriate me. I found this seeing in my Firefox and it defaulted to be active.