I have a different association with "enshittification" but I definitely don't support this change because it's a security problem, you're totally dependent on their moderation to keep you from clicking sketchy links.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

they're in this very thread cmon man

https://programming.dev/comment/15916128

[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I read that comment, but I know for a fact that's not the only way to log clicks.

[–] spoopy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

It's not for bsky to log clicks...????? They can already do that without doing this bounce link because you're using their app??????? Like folks are we really doing this?

It's for external websites to know that the click came from bsky. (E.g. if you click the link from the bsky app, without this trick it would like you just typed the URL in, since apps don't provide a referral header)

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 0 points 4 days ago

"check the link before you click" and these man in the middle forwarding systems make that impossible.

generally not true… the link href (the thing the browser shows to the user) would be the original link… bsky hijacks the link with an onclick (or similar) handler so you can see where you’ll be taken before clicking

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not exactly enshittification yet. The service still mostly works. But it is an attempt to build a wall around the garden.

Fuck walled gardens. That shit got old years ago. At least with FB you could pretend you didn't expect it. Maybe. If you're oblivious, at least.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I don't really see how. Other AppViews and custom clients don't do this. Its just a few lines of javascript in the frontend.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Funny how people keep saying it's not enshittification right up until the point where they choke to death on shit.