Sushi_Desires [he/him, they/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I have a question adjacent to this topic: Is it possible for someone (3rd party) to construct an elaborate tracking link that bounces through a server they themselves control – neither the site the link was posted on nor the destination, that also calls on a cookie or javascript function or something similar in the browser of the person who clicked it, in order to see who clicked it and what their destination was?

    I ask this because back in ~2021 there were a few communist twitter accounts that DM’ed their followers a strange / extremely long URL, apparently after their accounts were hacked. The link redirected to IG where some people said they were logged in to an account that had their real identity associated with it, and it caused a bit of a stir, but I never heard anything more about it. I have always wondered about this since it happened