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Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net
(news.ycombinator.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Eh I don't think it's malicious in nature but can't prove it either is or isn't. They might be doing more analysis on some outbound links or users for something or just A/B testing some additional methods for gathering more data. Unsure. But I wouldn't immediately jump to intentional.
If adding some analytics adds 5s to the load time, then they need to fire their developers.
There's no way this is accidental.
That's kind of the problem, they did fire their developers.
with that asshole in command? Uhm...
Every bad decision there is intentional
i think you should read the replies to the hackernews post, there's some interesting discussion there with more nuance. particularly the thread started by user "kens"
I have read them.
occam's razor says you should ;)
But Hanlon's razor says you shouldn't.
All right, we got a razor fight!
yeah, but that applies to a problem where you don't have any additional information. if you do have background information of any kind, you would be wise to take them into account.
my razor is ready, bring it on! 😆
The fact that specific domains and user agents are effected by this says otherwise. Take a look in the link for people discussing curling the urls and their findings.
It's Elmo.
It's definitely malicious in nature.