Re: For the love of Mining

On 08/23/2016 01:16 PM, grarpamp wrote:

So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting their gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like links. To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell.

But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking parameter name ;)

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<token>

Tumblr did this after Yahoo! bought it. First it was only the 'official' links in the form fields. Later they came for the links in your html too. Gotta have a Revenue model, and selling info to the Army War College (or whomever) for "Academic metadata research" is one of them. Rr