[mschuster91]

> although really they should really be maintaining the visit history themselves, as they do with Reddit Gold users

Another HTTP request between me and the content I want. Another 1s of RTT (UMTS link)... No.

[DavidSJ]

This can be done in parallel with JS, without using an HTTP redirect.

[mschuster91]

Nope, if you fire the AJAX request directly on the onclick event, chances are high it will not be submitted/processed before the browser navigates away...