It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
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    10 hours ago

    Mind you, I’m not arguing that was crappy, just that not any modification of links is bad

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      9 hours ago

      I would argue that if you know your browser is stripping tracking info for links then the link you clicked on doesn’t have tracking information.