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[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 129 points 3 months ago (15 children)

This has absolutely nothing to do with enshittification. Bluesky doesn't need that redirect to know what you're clicking on. You're already on their platform, they can already track every single click that you do while on Bluesky including navigating to outbound links. I'm a bit shocked that nobody here is calling that out to be honest

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I don't think that is true, iirc you can't track simple clicks on HTML a elements.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, you absolutely can, and it's super simple. Click listeners are one of the most basic things you can do with JavaScript, and there's nothing special about a elements that would make them not work. The only way to stop it from the user's side is to disable JavaScript in their browser, but that comes with the downside of the majority of websites and apps just plain not working anymore.

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