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I'd say that we're sure it will. It has begun making the same shady practices like redirecting all out going links through go.bsky*app 🙄
Ah yes, to prove they drive traffic to places, they funnel all outgoing links through themselves for tracking.
Can you please explain? Is that like the amp prefix or more sinister?
go.bsky.com does not even exist. Do you mean go.bsky*.com?
And they reported that it was to gather the referral when going to websites, which constitutes their income. But it's closed source so we don't know. It could be tracking and selling the data.
Sorry, it is go.bsky*app. I corrected my comment!
is it really shady when they stated up front they're doing it so posters and journalists can see where their traffic is coming from?
Well, if they tell the truth then it's fine. But no way to know what they do with this redirect (to my knowledge at least).