Comment by basilikum
3 hours ago
A lot of people feel the need to add restrictions for the sake of restrictions. A whole lot of "security" products work the same way, too. They either do that to pretend to others that they are doing something or to pretend to themselves that they are somehow more important because they exert control.
I suspect this could be more a case of an open ticket about apparent redirect link spam getting fixed by a junior who thought this solution was simple and clever. The junior was even smart enough to write the fix as a nightly cron job, avoiding having to integrate it in an existing large codebase.