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Re: A URL Lengthener

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Post by marmot777 »

vanderZwan wrote: post #242
marmot777 wrote: post #134

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I miss getting Rick Rolled.

These days it's all about personalised, targeted rolling . You have to find out what song your friend hates the most (say, "Africa" by Toto) and try to trick them into listening to ever-more-horrible cover versions of it. At least, that seems to be the thing in my friend group.

That’s genius: Customizez Rolling based on musical tastes.

I will say that roll recipient feedback indicated that the “YouTube ads take away from the shock value.”

So maybe hosting your own videos is the way to go for the intrepid roller.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Post by niutech »

mobjack wrote: post #261
Closi wrote: post #258

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I'm sure this is something they have considered as their own analytics program uses onclick to track outbound traffic - I assume it's a mix of speed, reliability and the ability to track without javascript. Plus, if it was done on OnClick there would definitely be an add-on to disable the tracking on all browsers.

There are some privacy reasons for it. A direct link from a search page will let websites see the search terms that users entered in to navigate there. Google still knows everything so it doesn't protect you from them, but websites are more in the dark what users were doing before clicking the link.

There is rel="noreferrer" for that.
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