Isn't that what honey did in their app?
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Are you talking about coupons? Then no, very different things.
It's a switcheroo, but not the same switcheroo
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This has absolutely nothing to do with enshittification. Bluesky doesn't need that redirect to know what you're clicking on. You're already on their platform, they can already track every single click that you do while on Bluesky including navigating to outbound links. I'm a bit shocked that nobody here is calling that out to be honest
I don't think that is true, iirc you can't track simple clicks on HTML a elements.
Yes, you absolutely can, and it's super simple. Click listeners are one of the most basic things you can do with JavaScript, and there's nothing special about a elements that would make them not work. The only way to stop it from the user's side is to disable JavaScript in their browser, but that comes with the downside of the majority of websites and apps just plain not working anymore.
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So much for the claims I read that it would be a more open platform. I can’t see how this possibly benefits the users.
The product is ~~not open source and it~~ is mainly controlled by a company through its servers and proprietary components. They own it. Even if they use some open protocols. They are about as open as OpenAI — they are not.
This is technically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect?). Bluesky is open source, with the exception of the discover feed algorithm, which they claim must remain secret to prevent it being manipulated. There are open-source replacements for that feed available, so it's open enough that it is theoretically possible to spin up a Bluesky replacement, albeit impossibly expensive.
Coming at it from another angle though, the product in any commercial social media product is you, so in that sense you're right: the product is not open source. Either way, open source code is not some panacea that erases all risk of commodifying its users. Bluesky is a great example because while it is open source, that in absolutely no way prevents them from tracking their users.
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They already know your IP address, you're using their website/app.
It's either to track outbound clicks (And potentially block them if they're harmful, YouTube and Steam do that), or a much more unlikely option is to hide the referrer from the target site (Since browsers have better ways to handle that now, but old ones don't)
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Didn't take long for the expected to happen.
This doesn't even make sense.
If you are on their domain they can see the things you click on, this is how websites and cookies work.
This isn't nefarious, it's the raving delusions of a tech illiterate idiot.
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Anything under direct corporate control will enshittify. It has nothing to do with mission, values, direction, purpose, or any other bullshit in the charter of a service. If it is controlled by an entity with shareholders turning a profit, it will enshittify, because those shareholders will demand ever increasing profit for their investments. It is a one-way process.
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There is a legitimate reason for this: it’s the only way to provide content creators with evidence of how many people actually clicked on the link.
The downside is that there is so many ways that a feature like this can be abused by BlueSky in ways that can hurt users.
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Oh, there is so much more you can do with this "functionality". Welp, anyone who trusts bluesky even an inch better prepare to be deeply disappointed.
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