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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its easier to do this, so they don't have to go through every post to check if it has a bad link, and if so, to edit it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

but that’s what indexes are for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That wasn't the reason they gave anyway -- they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.