Facebook URLs

Hi all, I use the mobile site (m.facebook.com) with Netsurf but I've
never understood why links on posts such as:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dog_visit_stressed_out_university_students/

turn into something horrendously long such as:

http://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkpress.co.uk%2Fnews%2F11276158.Puppy_love_as_guide_dogs_visit_stressed_out_university_students%2F&h=nAQFw8k0a&enc=AZPXMdNOFY5jft7xFZWvoSPStvrU8djNkRBAwOKIq8doXAYlOtrL4URq2aezoNDxStaN79e3VneS85f4-L-6JTw51xN-2OHAu0rap3MdNZz-WZ3zgb6exV5wlYZX11ZMveZkJNiouE27lobN2iqq4ZGW&s=1

and a subsequent blank page when you click on them in Netsurf. Above
example is purely for illustration, not that I usually surf the
internet for puppies or even the York press !

Is this a Netsurf peculiarity or a Facebook one? If the latter, is
there a workaround? You don't seem to be able to highlight and copy
just the URL without activating it.

thanks

Chris.

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