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A comment on Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened Links.

Re:Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened ... by gotrythis on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:52PM (#9508581)
Back in 2008, the owners of digital point forums got sued by ebay for something similar, dropping cookies on people visiting their forums for amazon. I wonder if bit.ly will be sued for this.

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Re:Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened ... by stephengillie on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:19PM (#9508748)
URL lengtheners are a good way to examine a URL before clicking. LongURL is my favorite. http://longurl.org/
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