On 2013-06-03 00:57, Joe Wronski wrote: > I'm just editorializing here. I found the rant linked to in an > Elektor email newsletter ironic. > An Elektor newsletter came in the mail, dated 5/31. One article is > titled Big Brother Tektronix is Watching You, and the rant is about a > Tektronix newsletter and how newsletters in general are marketing=20 > tools > to track surfing behavior. And how the author clicked on a Tektronix > newsletter link and almost immediately got a call from Tektronix, and > how he reacted by unsubscribing from the newsletter, and wrote the=20 > rant > rather than the article he intended to write. > I rarely click on newsletter links, and when I do want to read > something, I often trim the link of all the tags that I suspect will > lead back to me, and try to find it from what is left. Irony reared > it's head when I tried to do that with the Elektor link. The link=20 > leads > to this: > > but the actual link was: > > No substring of the link worked, so I had to follow the full link, and > now, either dbaseserver.mistermail.nl can identify me as the reader,=20 > or > that is the actual path to the article. And why the heck Elektor > needs to have a 3rd party to serve their links is beyond me. I saw this too and thought exactly the same. I considered blogging=20 about it but the irony would probably be missed by most. I can confirm that the 2nd and 3rd numbers in the URL within my link=20 are different to yours, which suggests they are doing tracking. Perhaps=20 it it is worth blogging about after all. David --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .