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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

This doesn't even make sense.

If you are on their domain they can see the things you click on, this is how websites and cookies work.

This isn't nefarious, it's the raving delusions of a tech illiterate idiot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So why are they hiding it by changing the link with client-side code? Might not be nefarious, but why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Most probably so that people don't hover over the link and see that it doesn't match, which might confuse them if they don't know how redirects work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Because that would break the “copy link” functionality.

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