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Re:About rel=noopener by pmalynin on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:20PM (#11553998)
This is one of the reasons why FB et al go to a special link before opening the actual target site.
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Re:About rel=noopener by hueving on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:18AM (#11554131)
That's more of a happy accident. Their primary reason is to track things.
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Re:About rel=noopener by tuukkah on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:36AM (#11554297)
I thought the primary reason was privacy: https://m.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/protecting...
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Re:About rel=noopener by xuki on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:54AM (#11554220)
You can track click without a redirect.
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Re:About rel=noopener by azazqadir on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:46AM (#11554606)
Like using utm?
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Re:About rel=noopener by xuki on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:35PM (#11556212)
Like using javascript
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