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Tue Apr 28 12:52:54 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 12:49:39 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 11:43:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The reason for the non-specific link is your votes aren't 
>> counted if you access it with the specific one.
>
> How do you know that?
>
> I mean this seems a bit awkward, because if you say is true, 
> I'm pretty sure they would know this by setting something 
> trough cookies, so if I access the direct link then go to main 
> page and finally go back to the link it would work? This sound 
> crazy!

If they do it, they can just look if you came from the homepage 
because the browser sends where you came from (Referer header)


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