how about “silly”? “stupid”?

unlike on reddit, you can edit your post title here on lemmy.

no, they’re getting a lot of downvotes because it’s spam.

they’re not interested in legitimate discussion, they only need to promote the spam links at the end of the post.

true, my comment was primarily from the perspective of the recipient of tracking links

I haven’t checked how reddit does this but just from the example it seems like there is no anti tracking from the use of urlcheck that you’re describing.

reddit appears to generate tracking link with a specific numeric identifier in their database, so instead of attaching a bunch of removable url parameters they instead do a lookup in their database and then redirect to the original destination.

this also means your app checking the redirect will need to fetch the url to determine the destination, which means their tracking still works just fine.

edit: a word

based on https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/deve2819c518 it seems like users may need to explicitly enable sharing crash data with app developers.

I don’t know what the default for this is.

https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev9a80ab71d seems to imply that you need to distribute your app via app store or testflight to be able to receive crash reports.
the majority of apps installed on my mac are not installed via app store, though many of them have app store variants.
i don’t know if the distribution channel matters or just having the app in app store is enough.
this article however also explicitly states this, so it appears that you do indeed by default not send this data to app developers:

users who download your app from the App Store will need to agree to share crash and usage data with developers.

I’m pretty sure this only goes to Apple, not to the actual developer.

I believe I’ve even seen devs specifically ask for copies of the reports from the crash reporter, as they wouldn’t receive them otherwise.

this doesn’t change the rest of your statement though, just afaik the recipient is different.

it is generally possible to find the post on another instance through the search, at least through the default web interface. there is certainly a lot of room for improvement though.