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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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There is a legitimate reason for this: it’s the only way to provide content creators with evidence of how many people actually clicked on the link.
The downside is that there is so many ways that a feature like this can be abused by BlueSky in ways that can hurt users.
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I’m using duckduckgo. Yes, it shows bluesky has trackers. lemmy shows NO trackers...
I use duckduckgo. It shows the sites I’ve visited, and tracking attempts. And, yes, there are tracking attempts from bluesky. There are no tracking attempts from lemmy.ca
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Even if it didn't go to bluesky.app first before the actual link, clicks on it can still be made to be tracked. It's trivial to do it much more discreetly.
It is definitely tracked, but I would guess that turning it into a bluesky link has other uses, not all nefarious, such as: link previews, caching, dealing with dead links.
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Still a million times better than mastodon.
Why?
Mastodon is dead, unusable, and left a bad taste in the public's mouth. The fediverse is good for some things. But a miroblogging site where people need news fast? No.
Bluesky has already become the replacement for Twitter, and it's off to a great start. I tried mastodon, I had 3 accounts, I used it as much as I could, but as soon as I got an invite for bluesky, I stopped using it. There is no content I wish to see on mastodon.
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It's time to delete Bluesky and use Mastodon full time!
Doesn't this (at most) make it a bit easier for the destination site to track sources? It's been a couple decades since I did much web log analysis, but the referring URL is part of each log record I believe.
They wouldn't only want to know that a click came from Bluesky. They'd like to know all their referring sites, so the go.bsky.app redirect probably would be of little use unless it encoded something significant not present in the HTTP_REFERER header.
They never needed to redirect to do that in the first place. It's probably just done for convenience. Websites quietly tracking outgoing links has been technically possible since the '90s.
How is this technically possible? When I hover over a link, my browser informs me it takes me somewhere; then when I click it, it takes me to go.bluesky. Is the destination changing at the moment the click occurs? Why are they hiding this?
One line of Javascript
e.preventDefault()Javascript could change the url on the click event.
That's messed up. Javascript should never have been introduced T_T
JS isn't that problem. It's a tool, and I'd wager your expectation of web page functionality hinges on it in most cases. If we didn't have it we'd be back to the 90s where web pages fully refresh every time we click on something, if we want to see the information update on the page. JS, CSS, and HTML are the foundations of what we call websites.
Like any tool it can be used for dirty shit, but in order for it to be functional in the ways we want it to be it will also have potential for abuse.
If you want to you can install add-ons that block JS functionality - go ahead and enable them if you like; it let's you enable JS elements manually so that you can maintain a better security posture online. I'm not even being sassy, I recommend you do it if you care about privacy or security.
It'll be a giant pain in the ass though and you'll end up having to enable a bunch of stuff manually to get websites to work. But you'll learn a lot and you'll be better protected against tracking, malware, ads, etc.
Js is absolute the problem and I say this as a developer. There's just too much power that is almost always used for abuse. Do we really need Navigator api and webrtc to be enabled by default etc?
It's very clear that JS has been hijacked by bad actors long ago and I love Javascript and all of the cool things it allows us to do its just clearly in an abusive relationship.
It's a tool for the developer, but a security risk for the user. The web should have had a more restrictive set of a features. This would ensure websites operate more similarly to each other and abuse be less rampant. We should have been very conservative adding features to the web, instead of rapidly embracing new technology for short-term benefit.
I had JS off by default on my smartphone for about three years. The web was a miserable experience, not because of a lack of functionality, but because of broken functionality.
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