Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

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July 19th, 2022

@tcurdt @simevidas Yes, which is why I wrote that I think this battle is lost. The only way to fight this is to make the data they get as useless as possible, like all coming from the same server IP address for example, but this doesn’t help much if each

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@tcurdt @simevidas If browsers counter this, I think they will make the request on a proxy server they run, detect the final URL, and only then make the actual request locally.

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Edge URL schemes: https://t.co/xrnOj7pdRN. @ericlaw shines some light on the proprietary `edge:` and `microsoft-edge:` schemes.

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Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL stripping: https://t.co/sEwT1n14Qq. Not entirely unexpected development and the beginning of a cat 🐈 and mouse 🐁 #privacy race. Personally, I unfortunately consider this battle l

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