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by HarryHirsch 3412 days ago
Tracking links are always extremely bad form, though. I'd be interested in hearing from the other side, though, why such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
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I think of acceptable behaviour in terms of a blacklist rather than a whitelist. I don't have a problem with tracking links because I don't see a reason to have a problem with tracking links.
By tracking links do you mean custom-generated links to a certain page that reply back to some software showing that you clicked the link?
Yes, exactly. Usually they are in the form of http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtub....