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Am I supposed to be mad at twitter for forcing me to use their unreliable link shortener? How is this any different from the countless times twitter.com was down? It's a centralized service, things happen.
Which is why we shouldn't use centralized services like Twitter. I'm rooting for http://tent.io/ myself.
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If he was not misled by the false "on hover" representation of the link in his address bar, then its possible he means: 1. That Twitter uses a "short link" where Google uses some kind of (I trust) token-secured "open redirect" or 2. That Google uses a {Javascript, 301, ...} redirect where Twitter uses a {Javascript, 301, ...} redirect. Depending on what User-agent I sent, I got Twitter to variously return a Javascrip…
How does the fake link hover work? With Javascript turned off the first time I hover over a link I see the google redirect url but the second time I hover I see the fake url.
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What's the difference? * User browses on Twitter, clicks link in tweet pointing to t.co, is redirected off to the page where they wanted to go. * User searches on Google, clicks link in search result pointing to google.com, is redirected off to the page where they wanted to go. Admittedly it only happens with half of the search results of the first page (I think; it seems to vary), but it's very much the same techniq…
Well that sucks, I stand corrected. I was looking at browser's link hover and hadn't noticed the redirect. I still don't understand why the browser isn't telling me what I'm clicking on, that's bothering me.
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Google search does not use the same technique.
It does these days actually, but the urls are re-written by javascript only after you click on them. Try a right click.
Can't they do something where the HREF is left intact, but an additional onClick is added to track clicks?
I'm sure someone is having an interesting conversation right now. Twitter needs to stop having these embarrassing down-ages if they want to be a permanent player in the tech field.
They've had them all along. Didn't stop them from getting to where they are. Why should they start caring now? From a cost/benefit perspective, it is probably not worth it to them to do whatever is needed to have a six nines uptime.
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Well that sucks, I stand corrected. I was looking at browser's link hover and hadn't noticed the redirect. I still don't understand why the browser isn't telling me what I'm clicking on, that's bothering me.
It's because Javascript is allowed to override what's in the status bar.
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Redirects of all types are especially bad on mobile devices since they require a pointless new round trip, which anecdotally seems to double the amount of time it takes for a webpage to start loading. Since Facebook and many other services do this on their mobile apps by default, I am surprised I don't hear more complaints about it. Twice through the cell tower is too long.
I couldn't agree more. I looked a short while ago for a firefox extension which just looks for a url in the body of an anchor link, then alerts you if the htef attribute is different. Couldn't find one or be stuffed writting one, but was bemused about the relative lack of info on the topic. My last straw using Google Chrome, was when I noticed that the browsers "could not load webpage" (e.g. When you don't have an In…