minus-squaretteok@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Bluesky already doing enshittificationlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·25 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
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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.