Apparently, there's a term for the general practice, it's called "link shimming"...

pncnmnp 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

Apparently, there's a term for the general practice, it's called "link shimming" - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat....

I had some fun in my grad days building a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme so the shim server can do its job without knowing which link you clicked: https://github.com/pncnmnp/shimmey