Aye chaps, Had a friendly enquiry from a member about the reasons we try to edit links people sometimes inadvertently put up to dodgier WW2 web-references. Rather than just reply to them, seemed possibly worthwhile explaining it to a wider audience: Basically, linking is a two-way street. If someone links in to here, and someone clicks on it, I can see it via pretty standard Google analytics and the forum software. I can then follow it back to see where the link was - all entirely normal web-stuff (and if you run a site & haven't got Google Analytics I can recommend it - sorta fascinating sometimes, & lots of useful tools on there). So, if someone links (naturally with only the best intentions) to a neo, or denialist, or racist site, whatever - anything a bit naughty - the people at that site can follow the link back to here, and spotting & binning loons can get tiresome enough without special help. So that, is why we obfuscate such links. I try and do it in a way that people can Google the page up themselves if they want to have a shufti, just not via WW2T's facilities. Hope that makes sense, ~A
