diff --git a/content/posts/2021-06-17-tracking-links.md b/content/posts/2021-06-17-tracking-links.md index e40a437..7adb54f 100644 --- a/content/posts/2021-06-17-tracking-links.md +++ b/content/posts/2021-06-17-tracking-links.md @@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ connection to your friend is traced by the website owner. > If this creeps you out, consider using a browser extension like > [ClearURLs][6], which recognizes these URL parameters that do nothing but > feed information to the website owners and removes it for you. -> -> TODO: talk about `Referer`? But email tracking links are even worse: they abuse redirects to obfuscate the original URL entirely. For instance, you'd get links in your email that look @@ -98,8 +96,6 @@ than the protection of their customers. > giving feedback, then that itself is a reflection of the state of your > readers. -Thanks for reading. - [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_tracking