minus-squaretteok@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Bluesky already doing enshittificationlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·6 days agoAs someone who ran a popular link shortening platform let me tell you how difficult it is to curtail spam links. This is likely a way to warn users before being forwarded to fraudulent websites that a link has been marked as spam. There are many other use cases for this redirect as well but this is the most obvious for user safety. linkfedilink
As someone who ran a popular link shortening platform let me tell you how difficult it is to curtail spam links.
This is likely a way to warn users before being forwarded to fraudulent websites that a link has been marked as spam.
There are many other use cases for this redirect as well but this is the most obvious for user safety.