Comment on (Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 days agoYeah, I think the title is just bait to get more clicks. Leveraging legitimate fear for what Trump’s administration is doing to garner more clicks is pretty scummy.
ericjmorey@programming.dev 5 days ago
That’s not an affiliate link that’s an anonymous tracking link.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I noted that this was something added automatically by Ghost, the blogging platform the website is hosted on.
However, ultimately there is no good way to discern if a link like that is not an affiliate link or a non-anonymous tracking link, particularly for the average user. Particularly when the link does not include
nofollowon the anchor tag.