Technology

37353 readers

293 users here now

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

307

Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If adding some analytics adds 5s to the load time, then they need to fire their developers.

There's no way this is accidental.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

That's kind of the problem, they did fire their developers.

load more comments (9 replies)