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Re:Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers by W4ldi on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:01AM (#22375491)
It's most likely a bug. Some dev added tracking to all the href's and just didn't think about phone numbers. The title of the article sounds like they did it on purpose, which i doubt.
Re:Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers by citrin_ru on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:56AM (#22396622)
I'd argue that it is not a bug - it is a wrong assumption (that all URLs are http/https) based on limited experience.

With a typical bug code works not as author intended it to work. Numbers of such bugs can be reduced by testing and better tooling. But software development as an industry creates incentive to be overconfident and not to question own assumptions: developers who don't stop to read documentation/standards/gather information in anther way deliver more features in less time.

Re:Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers by duxup on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:02AM (#22375503)
Yeah that's what it seems like to me. Just a case of doing it wrong.