Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them

Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them by gpvos on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:35PM (#16415932)

It appears to rewrite a URL of the form https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/.... to https://www.amazon.com/b?.... . This means it either has a (possibly huge) database of rewrite rules that needs to be kept up-to-date, or communicates with yet another Google API. Probably the latter, leaking even more of your browsing history to Google.

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Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them by reificator on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:39PM (#16415960)

Or it could just as easily be using the canonical links in the head of the page.

Jumping straight to malice when the answer could be simple and benign is incredibly harmful. It undermines efforts to shine a light on truly malicious behavior.

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Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them by gpvos on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:42PM (#16415978)

I totally forgot that there could be a canonical link in the head of a page. Apologies for that.

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Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them by kodablah on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:37PM (#16415948)

Your links are broken. Regardless, do a view-source and look for `<link rel="canonical` and I believe that is what is being used.

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Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them by gpvos on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:39PM (#16415958)

Not broken, but "of the form", with dots where variant stuff goes. (Edit: okay, HN mangled them a bit; I changed them a little.)

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