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The Licence Layer of Our Terms Page: 19 Off-Site Links, 12 Hosts, 17 Distinct Link Texts
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The Licence Layer of Our Terms Page: 19 Off-Site Links, 12 Hosts, 17 Distinct Link Texts

DEV Community: opensource·OnePassApps·1 day ago
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I work on OnePassApps, the team behind app.onepassapps.com. This is our own Terms page, read and counted today, 9 November 2026.

Every link we publish carries tracking parameters. This post is about the other kind of link: the ones on our Terms page that point away from our own domain, at the licences and source policies behind the text our apps quote.

One page carries all of them

I fetched all 56 URLs in our own sitemap.xml over plain HTTPS - no session, no cookies, no JavaScript - and counted every anchor in the served HTML.

1,058 anchors in total across the 56 pages.

19 of them point at another host.

All 19 are on one page: our Terms .

The other 55 pages in the sitemap carry no off-site link at all, and neither do the five pages we keep off the sitemap (/apps, /support, /sign-in, /sign-up, /account), which I fetched as well.

That is a statement about the served HTML, not about the running app.…

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