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nickbarnwell
on Feb 8, 2012
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Pinterest quietly modifying users links to generat...
The reason most do that is to rob the site you're visiting of context about the page you're just on. If I click through from a friend's Facebook profile they can't see the referrer URL is, for example, facebook.com/nickbarnwell
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