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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:12AM (#10552876)
It also creates unnecessary traffic, of course.
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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:15AM (#10552891)
Not necessarily. Link shorteners can act like referrer guards, which is useful from a privacy standpoint.
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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by jacquesm on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:58AM (#10553123)
No, they just shift the party that can see the referrer to whoever runs the link shortener.
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