Tagged “privacy”
5 articles.
Consent and click analytics: what a redirect may record
A redirect happens before any banner appears. That timing is the whole question, and it has a defensible answer.
Referrer policy: what your links tell the destinationFIELD NOTES / 095 Developers · 4 min readReferrer policy: what your links tell the destination
The referrer header is both an analytics backbone and a leak. Choosing a policy means choosing which one matters more.
End-to-end encrypted short links: how they workFIELD NOTES / 043 Developers · 2 min readEnd-to-end encrypted short links: how they work
The destination is encrypted; the key lives in the URL fragment, which browsers never send to the server.
GDPR and link analytics: what you can collect and howFIELD NOTES / 042 Guides · 2 min readGDPR and link analytics: what you can collect and how
IP addresses are personal data. Here is how click analytics stays useful and lawful at the same time.
Referrer hiding: what it does and when it is appropriateFIELD NOTES / 041 Guides · 2 min readReferrer hiding: what it does and when it is appropriate
The Referer header tells the destination where a visitor came from. Sometimes that is exactly what you do not want.
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