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title: Links
date: 2024-07-19T16:52:40-04:00
permalink: /links/
tags:
  - grousing
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A thing that I have only just realized that I *loathe* about newsletters: when links in the newsletters have self-referential preview URLs. So when I hover over all the many clever links in “Your Newsletter,” they show up as taking me to yournewsletter.com followed by a hash that only on the server resolves into the actual URL, leaving me with no sense whatsoever about what I’m going to get myself into if I click. In the year of the internet 2024, this is some bad privacy and security practice, man. 

For the love of all that’s holy, get a blog. I have an RSS reader and I’m not afraid to use it.