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Should Gemini clients alert users upon redirect?

Rohan Kumar seirdy at seirdy.one

Fri Feb 12 19:18:12 GMT 2021

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Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe that the original intent behind discouraging silent redirects was to avoid dark patterns such as tracking re-directs and short URLs made with the intent to hide the target (popular for Rickrolling and shock content).

If my above understanding is correct, then adding a trailing slash shouldn't be problematic. This should be clarified in the documentation.

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