#Bluesky now redirects links through "go.bsky.app".
This is a kludge similar to Twitter's "t.co" to pass on referer information (already available on the open web) from mobile apps, to make Bluesky look better in analytics reports.
Intercepting clicks is always problematic from a […]
This is a kludge similar to Twitter's "t.co" to pass on referer information (already available on the open web) from mobile apps, to make Bluesky look better in analytics reports.
Intercepting clicks is always problematic from a […]
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The Bluesky web client when showing links (and presumably mobile apps as well; I don't use them). If you visit e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3lljxj22npk25, and click on the link, you'll briefly see it being routed through go.bsky.app.
It's certainly better than changing posts, I agree. But like I said, it's just not necessary for the web version; that's what referrers are for. Users shouldn't be subjected to kludges just to standardize referrer domains.
I see no indication that they're attempting to do anything of the sort - and it would be optimizing for an unusual edge case, anyway. If you're finding out later that a URL is harmful, you can use the same infrastructure that you'd use for other content updates to notify clients.
And so the platform degrades, one step at a time, to satisfy business concerns.
- Limit the redirection service to apps. There's no reason to do this on the open web (it just gives them the marginal app of saying "look for go.bsky.app to find our referrers").
- Load an embedded web view in the app if you want to […]
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#ArchiveTeam, the people behind e.g. the effort to archive US government websites in a hurry—before they were deleted/changed in an even greater hurry by the current […]
Good point, but at least with the current implementation on the web, they are not modifying the `href` attribute but seem to be injecting the redirector on click. (If you right-click and copy the address, it does not get redirected.) That's problematic in its own ways, but should not […]