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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Anybody know what the real reason for this is?

All websites can track how often a link is clicked, and what the link is, and who clicked it (especially if you have an account).

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's to get around a bug on some platforms where the Referer header isn't set properly. Basically when you click the link in the app (maybe other platforms too idk), it can't set the Referer, so website statistics can't know what came from bsky. This was in their changelog. It used to already work correctly on desktop, though.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah I saw it in some announcement from them, it’s this.

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