Cities are swapping traditional light bulbs for more energy-efficient brighter LEDs. The rise of these blue LEDs are creating problems for our night sky and our health.
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.
Why did you use a redirection link instead of the original link?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution
Are you trying to track user interaction?
It’s a “gift article” to get past paywall: https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403823008539-How-to-use-gift-articles
it says the gift article is expired for some reason
Try this: https://wapo.st/3pUUnJu
I’ll edit the link for the post. Sorry, didn’t realize these type of gift links expire after 14 days.
thanks!
I’ve tried the direct link and it is not behind he paywall.
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.
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That makes sense. Thanks!