He likely wasn’t responsible for shortening it, Washington post did it automatically when sharing the article.
Everything does this nowadays Google maps adds trackers to the url when sharing as well.
I agree it’s annoying but not many good ways around it.
It’s just a shortened link, probably copied it for mobile.
But what’s the point of shortening it? I want to see the source before clicking on a link.
He likely wasn’t responsible for shortening it, Washington post did it automatically when sharing the article. Everything does this nowadays Google maps adds trackers to the url when sharing as well. I agree it’s annoying but not many good ways around it.
especially on mobile. On desktop, where you have a keyboard and mouse, and even tools like browser extensions or whatever it’s definitely easier.
That makes sense. Thanks!