This is called “Outbound link tagging” - you can configure this on the Analytics Settings page (/ghost/#/settings/analytics)
And yeah, they do the same as GamingOnLinux with not including the content in the RSS feeds.
Forgot to give my opinion. The ref tag doesn’t bother me because it’s not giving any private information up, besides where I am from just like the referrer header does. I am kind of conflicted with the RSS feeds because I personally use them for many things, however I understand that these places need to advertise to make money (though I block ads too).
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?reftag is from the Ghost blogging platform. https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-ref-from-links-in-posts/37701/2And yeah, they do the same as GamingOnLinux with not including the content in the RSS feeds.
Forgot to give my opinion. The ref tag doesn’t bother me because it’s not giving any private information up, besides where I am from just like the referrer header does. I am kind of conflicted with the RSS feeds because I personally use them for many things, however I understand that these places need to advertise to make money (though I block ads too).