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by Schoolmeister 2441 days ago
That's odd. When you scroll past the article the URL is rewritten to just https://www.asiaone.com. I wonder what would be the benefit of that.
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Lower bounce rate? +1 pageview?
Because then you aren't on the article anymore.
It’s an annoying trend, I have also noticed it on other sites. You finish the article or viewing the image or whatever, scroll a bit past the end or flick to the bottom to check you aren’t missing anything, and then try to copy the URL and get some other page you never visited.
I tried to find info on this behavior with no luck- does it have a name?