Why are you defending the destruction of one of the basic principles of hypertext?
Note: Irrelevant. I've observed this behavior for several weeks already as a regular user without a Google account and countless comments elsewhere describing the same behavior.
Pings are blockable in Firefox and so are the event analytics requests triggered by Google's on-page JavaScript.
You've been awarded one (1) Dunning-Krugerrand. They own the JS but that is not enough. Don't assert so confidently that they don't need the redirects.
You've been awarded one (1) Dunning-Krugerrand. They do not, so don't assert so confidently that they do.
Why are you defending the destruction of one of the basic principles of hypertext?
Note: Irrelevant. I've observed this behavior for several weeks already as a regular user without a Google account and countless comments elsewhere describing the same behavior.
Pings are blockable in Firefox and so are the event analytics requests triggered by Google's on-page JavaScript.
You've been awarded one (1) Dunning-Krugerrand. They own the JS but that is not enough. Don't assert so confidently that they don't need the redirects.
You've been awarded one (1) Dunning-Krugerrand. They do not, so don't assert so confidently that they do.