On 13 Jun 2014 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:41:52PM +0000, Cristopher Dewhurst wrote: >> >> Is this a Netsurf peculiarity or a Facebook one? If the latter, is >> there a workaround? You don't seem to be able to highlight and copy >> just the URL without activating it.
> A Facebook one. They want to know who follows your link, so they proxy > it. Exactly. Google does the same. The workaround is to save the link as text, extract the embedded URL and replace the escaped characters (%2F = / and &3A = : in your example). Once you get to the unescaped ampersand it and all the rest is Facebook garbage which you can delete. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
