• helenslunch
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    1 month ago

    I don’t pretend to know how any of this works, but the link is obviously already there in the browser, otherwise it couldn’t direct you to it.

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      But it doesn’t always point to the destination. Instead, it points to another page that then redirects you to the destination.

      Your browser does not know the address of the destination, only the addresss of the middleman tracking webpage.

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        1 month ago

        Except if you hover over it, the browser will show you where it’s redirecting to and not the tracking URL. That’s the whole point.