1474733 - wrong link in the inclusion of analytics code

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Simone]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

gone to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value#rgba(), ctrl+u to view the code with chrome 67.0.3396.99


Actual results:

in analytics code there is this broken credits link comment:
// http://cfsimplicity.com/61/removing-analytics-clutter-from-campaign-urls
and going to that link I found it redirecting to a simil chinese home page selling houses



Expected results:

show me the /61/removing-analytics-clutter-from-campaign-urls page where I could find informations about that code written in the script

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Thanks for the report. The link appears twice in the Kuma code base.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/search?q=cfsimplicity.com&unscoped_q=cfsimplicity.com

I like giving credit, but when the source is no longer available, I think the right thing is to remove the comments.

Comment 2

[Simone]

Maybe the link could change this way?:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160420165107/http://cfsimplicity.com/61/removing-analytics-clutter-from-campaign-urls

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.