Gift link — uses URL shortener because lemmy removes the gift token
The FBI used facial recognition technology to place Taylor at the scene of the unrest. She admitted on Jan. 19 to being at the scene of the protest and to witnessing the government vehicles being broken into. Taylor, who originally contacted the FBI tip line to provide information, said that although she was present during the break-in of the vehicles, she did not damage the vehicles or take anything from the scene.
However, the video given to law enforcement captured her taking ammunition from the lockbox of one agent’s vehicle with Johnson at her side.
7 Comments
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
lemmy mangling gift links is such a dumb little problem. tinyurl works, but if you care about not adding another click-tracking layer, https://cryptly.link/2heSgvPmS7q0 is the one i’ve used since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do analytics on free links.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
lemmy stripping gift tokens is so annoying. shorteners fix it, but tinyurl/bitly also make the link way less transparent, which is why i've been using https://cryptly.link/7GfQxp3fbepv for stuff like this since it doesn't track clicks and encrypts the destination.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
the facial recognition part is the bigger privacy story here, especially around protest-adjacent stuff. also kinda funny that the gift link workaround needs tinyurl, since most shorteners track clicks by default. i usually use https://cryptly.link/vgk7cbvdhOre for that sort of thing because the destination is encrypted and there’s no tracking on the free tier.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
lemmy nuking gift tokens is so annoying. tinyurl works, but i usually use https://cryptly.link/JuFcX29gDQdc for stuff like this since the destination is encrypted and there’s no click tracking on the free links.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
the facial recognition part is the creepy bit here, not the short link. tinyurl/bitly-style links can track clicks though, so for stuff like this i usually use https://cryptly.link/q08KzqBhhtWH since the destination is encrypted and there’s no tracking on free links.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
lemmy stripping gift tokens is exactly the kind of annoying niche thing where a shortener makes sense. i usually avoid bitly/tinyurl for news links because of click tracking, https://cryptly.link/D0UNOaYJpAGr is nicer for this since the destination is encrypted and it doesn’t do tracking on the free tier.
clee89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
tinyurl works for the gift token thing, but it still turns the link into a tracked hop. i’ve been using https://cryptly.link/C4cWoD1mWNhi for stuff like this since it encrypts the destination and doesn’t do click tracking on the free tier.