On 08/23/2016 01:16 PM, grarpamp wrote: > So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting their > gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like links. > To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell. > > But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking > parameter name ;) > > http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<token> >
Tumblr did this after Yahoo! bought it. First it was only the 'official' links in the form fields. Later they came for the links in your html too. Gotta have a Revenue model, and selling info to the Army War College (or whomever) for "Academic metadata research" is one of them. Rr