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by JohnFen 785 days ago
> the links don’t redirect to the external site, but to an internal redirection link?

Yes, which is why I broke the habit of just clicking on links years ago and switched to copy/pasting the link text to extract the real URL instead.

The existence of the ping attribute and "sendBeacon" are why I won't stop copy/pasting links even if they stop including those redirects.