top | item 7836867 (no title) sukuriant | 11 years ago My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site. discuss order hn newest unclebucknasty|11 years ago Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s? TheCoelacanth|11 years ago "Bad" as in malware, phishing, etc. When they recognize that a URL is bad, they can simply stop redirecting to that URL.
unclebucknasty|11 years ago Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s? TheCoelacanth|11 years ago "Bad" as in malware, phishing, etc. When they recognize that a URL is bad, they can simply stop redirecting to that URL.
TheCoelacanth|11 years ago "Bad" as in malware, phishing, etc. When they recognize that a URL is bad, they can simply stop redirecting to that URL.
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