For the love of Mining
Razer
rayzer at riseup.net
Tue Aug 23 18:09:59 PDT 2016
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
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