Even Wikipedia does it. I think it’s to see what platforms people are using it on
Google search does it too. Hangouts used to. Not sure about Messages and other Google services.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
dreamer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Keep in mind, there are many valid reasons for tracking or things that can be utilized to track or fingerprint you. I however feel there’s no transparency, there is often no basis for trust for these websites and I feel they share/sell data with reckless abandon so it is from that angle I approach issues like these from.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh for sure, I don’t mind it at all that Wikipedia puts a referrer in the end to indicate what platform the link is shared from. Of course that’s far cry from proper tracking and whatnot.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Fuck Google AMP as well.
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Thankfully haven’t seen AMP links posted to lemmy in a loooong time. At the beginning of the migration it was pretty painful though, had to use some de-amputator website to fix the links since there was (and still is) no bot to handle them