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Re:Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to ... by oefrha on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:09AM (#24818388)
Sorry, you have a history of making wild accusations like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21109530
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Re:Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to ... by jollofricepeas on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:18AM (#24818465)
Agreed. His “evidence” means nothing and his background is very shady. Those screenshots could be completely made up.

Can someone else verify with raw data?

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Re:Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to ... by megous on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:54AM (#24818750)
Screenshots are not completely made up. At least the `usg` HMAC seems to be valid, and timestamps are recent enough, so the redirector URLs are legit. Of course it's possible to generate the valid redirector URLs in other ways.

So if this is a scam it's not a completely stupid scam.

Anyway, A/B testing or gradual deoployment is a thing. I'll not turn against a fellow hacker and call him shady, just because a potential A/B gaslighing practice from some megacorp. ;) I'll just wait.

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Re:Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to ... by bArray on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:29AM (#24818553)
I've tried from both GMail and Thunderbird, not able to repeat the experiment.
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Re:Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to ... by sneak on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:11PM (#24821159)
https://twitter.com/tblodt/status/1317875714981416962
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