On 11/29/05, joshua schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Tobin wrote: >> Can this be disabled on a per-user basis? I really, *really* don't >> like click tracking. > Presumably. We haven't thought about it too much. "What bookmarks did I > click on recently" is a frequent feature request, though. >
My biggest problem with the common implementations of click tracking is that they make a common use pattern of mine worthless. Google's click-tracking works by having every search result link to a horrible url like: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.random.org/&ei=l6iMQ_bmBMT2YKiBzekH&sig2=GABCdvvbnFGHbRk_Qax1OQ and bollocksing the statusbar text to look the the actual url (http://www.random.org in this case). In practice, I find that this leads to me doing a search to find a url to paste into an email/blog post, right-clicking to copy the url, and finding that I have this horrible redirect url instead. It's a pain. But an implementation that, say, used javascript to rewrite every tracked link such that it was still a real link, but its onclick actually submitted a form that ran the redirect... that would be nice. It'd have more missed clicks than the simpler approach (people without JavaScript, and I don't know what opening in a new tab/window would do to that), but since it's not critical functionality... -David --- http://www.ficwad.com _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
