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Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell?

Posted by timothy on from the here-let-me-bounce-you-a-few-times dept.

Ant snips from Royal Pingdom this excerpt: "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web. And it has a price."

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  1. Re:www.linuxtoday.com is the champion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    By the way, it's intentional for me not to link to them from Slashdot directly.

    You mean you don't want to link to http://www.linuxtoday.com ?

  2. Bwahahaha, what a joke! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    clone53421: We all already know you're nothing more than another dime-a-dozen "webpage maker", or better yet, yet another "scripting chump", because you are certainly not a programmer. Oh, I've taken a peek at the debug asm scripts you put into your profile, and I am far from impressed. An idiot could have done those, they're so damned small. I also watched you mess up totally on using Windows/DOS based environment variables not too long ago while you trolled others here, and that told me that you are just what you are showing us you are now: Just another dime-a-dozen webpage making chump. So quit trying to impress us, ok? Please. We've been doing the same for ages ourselves and we aren't impressed! Any child could have done that puny little trick you just did, so do give us a break.