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Bluesky already doing enshittification
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They already know your IP address, you're using their website/app.
It's either to track outbound clicks (And potentially block them if they're harmful, YouTube and Steam do that), or a much more unlikely option is to hide the referrer from the target site (Since browsers have better ways to handle that now, but old ones don't)
Wouldn’t it be easier to just scan the original post for harmful links?
Then you have to scan every single existing known post every time a new link is blocked, if you redirect it through a bouncer it's a single endpoint to block any link, regardless of the source of the post (since bluesky is in theory decentralized)
Interesting idea. Is that what devs & mods have commented about the system setup in update notes (if any?)? I'm not in web development, and not at all sure about what's considered standard practice or new. Others seem to be commenting in a way that sounds as though they feel put out or deceived, but you're saying it's just a minor security protocol?
No such thing as a free lunch, amirite? At least with the realization that your data is getting harvested like tuna by pirate fishing, you can purposely feed it bullshit to skew the metrics over time. If you want to get on the inside track of cheese sales, setup a program to search for cheese 1-3 hours/day during your time away from the terminal, and see how many sales of delicious brie/roquefort/edam/camembert/cheddar/emmentaler you get. Might as well get ads for delicious cheese wheels while you're at it.
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So either they are solving problems the most common browsers are solving or they are tracking clicks to sell user data. Somehow the latter sounds more likely, especially since they have no reliable source of income yet.
True, but at the same time it's their app. They already know what profiles you're looking at, what posts you're viewing, and the images you view, knowing what links you're clicking on is just another event handler.
Google & Meta & Discord doing the same?