Does FeedBurner’s URL Tracking Cause Blogs to Inappropriately Appear Updated?
I’ve found a weird inconsistency with my Google homepage, and it appears to be created by RSS feeds that have FeedBurner’s URL tracking features turned on.
The problem I’m having is that of web usability.
From time to time, the links that appear as visited on my Google homepage (because I’ve visited them, of course) turn back to the non-visited color sometime later. This sucks, because I know I’ve visited the pages before, but I have to make sure I have read it first.
This creates major problems for someone like me with OCD (no, I don’t perform rituals).
The only common theme with all of the feeds that show this type behavior is that they all have FeedBurner’s URL tracking turned on.
I don’t use Google Reader or any other RSS reader, so I’m wondering if it’s just Google homepage, or if all RSS readers have this problem.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior on their Google homepage or other RSS reader? If you use FeedBurner URL tracking would you please turn it off?
Tags: feedburner, url, tracking, google, homepage, link, color, ocd
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HMTKSteve said
on April 28 2007 @ 5:17 am
I wonder if this is related to my problem with iTunes.
Sometimes iTunes will download a whole feed on me. Some of these podcasts will be months old! This fills up my hard drive and causes me a headache. Perhaps these feeds are using feedburner?
don loeb said
on April 28 2007 @ 5:29 pm
hi, this is don from feedburner.
this is not likely the issue. but, can you send an example for us to look at?
thanks!
don loeb
vp partner services
feedburner
Ryan J. Parker said
on April 28 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Hi don, I’m going to keep track of the URLs for all posts I click through on my Google homepage. I’ll send something over when I see it again. Thanks!
Ryan J. Parker said
on April 28 2007 @ 7:18 pm
That didn’t take long. These URLs are from a Seth Godin post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/112704137/politics_is_fla.html
http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/typepad/sethsmainblog/%7E3/112704137/politics_is_fla.html
Looks like the ~ is, in some cases, being encoded.
Does FeedBurner always encode the ~, or is this a Google issue?
MoneyNing said
on June 3 2007 @ 2:14 am
Feedburner seems to work find for me! Please update me if we find a problem.
TechZilo said
on June 3 2007 @ 3:31 am
Hmm….worrying stuff indeed.
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