Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Normal
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Resolution: Done
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 2020-02-18
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Component/s: URL cleanup
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Labels:None
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Size Estimate:House
Description
It has been known for a long time that iTunes URLs without the country part can lead to all kinds of results. Like non-working links.
Yet adding them or changing valid URLs to ones without the country is still possible.
People do it for various reasons: some think it makes the link somehow global, others dislike certain languages and so on
It shouldn't be the burden of voters to explain this over and over again. A few examples:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/65171209
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/65185802
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/66131729
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/67063350
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/66834666
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/67134304
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/66522401
I could provide many more such examples if I bothered to store all of them in my bookmarks.