>Why do people break links can anyone tell me?
That is done to break referrer linkage. So the website that you clicked the link for can't tell where you came from to get there.
>except it can…since it still has the id tag at end of link
Well yeah, you still have to not be a dumbass, that was put in place to nub-proof the board, not as a crutch for laziness …
This is why many anons have ditched the "free" mail and calendar offerings of these satanic corporations, and started just doing it themselves.
It's not really free if they read all of your shit.
cut the barrel in half
This just shines a harsh light on why distributed systems have been discouraged by the corporations; [they] lose control of the narrative.
Good example: Email.
Did you know that email was actually originally designed to be self hosted?
Why was that discouraged over time?
Is it much harder than using linux/bsd/etc to set up?
Is it much harder than using linux/bsd/etc to maintain?
Fast forward to 2018. the Practice is heavily discouraged by BigInfo corps. With a heavy layer of FUD to scare away the curious.
Web and Media content is entrained in exactly the same way, by [them].
It doesn't need to be that way. It costs the same amount of money to transfer one bit as it does to transfer gigabytes.