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Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whose engagement?

The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don't care about tracking specific users.

It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.

Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don't think you understand how the internet works under the hood.

Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.

I'm not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don't break