best is to customise it with weird random stuff that put them on a watchlist
I've thought about making a personal browser extension that turns all querystring text to
"?source=your_mom"
Edit: it's a bookmarklet 🙃
I never understood why site authors don’t do it on page load after having run their analytics solution of choice. It’s just basic respect to site readers 🤷♂️
that assumes that the average Web surfer (or any Web targeting tech, really) has any clue about this ... I keep doing that but my less tech-oriented circles that share links all over the place have no idea 😢
I keep telling them but they see just numbers here and there and it's a dead-end conversation.
Thanks I am embarrassed I really didn’t know about this. I’m exclusively on mobile I haven’t had a computer for years now. So I think that crap is even more prevalent thanks to people like me, cuz it’s a pain to edit links on mobile so why bother especially if you don’t know why?
I did not expect that when I grew old and would rant about how much better things were back in my day, it would be about the fucking internet lmao
nah. Friends don't let friends give more data to advertisers.
...all the way....
truth!
Amazon etc. have started to become smarter by offering a "share" icon that strips all of that junk. I don't know why other platforms (like search engines) don't.
Oh, and CMS platforms. You should see how many blogs are out there with their links still enshrined in phishing protection URLs because they copied them out of their email.
Hate that stuff. Is there a browser extension or something that blocks it?
@[email protected] Oh, and what does it mean when someone adds something to the query string?
Ah yeah, that's real love!
or you're just conscious of the person receiving the link's privacy
like this? 😘
Firefox does this now :)
("Copy without site tracking")
I love everyone by that standard
I do it all the time for *everyone* because I love you all
I clearly love too many people
dood do you know just how many times this toot has shown up in my feed
I do this!
Yes! Unless it's a gift link…
Firefox loves its users. They build a function that does this.
We just need more parameters added to this function, so they get removed.
When someone pretends to love you, they send affiliate links.
unacknowledged truth
if they also have a sick sense of humour, they will also stuff all the utm_* query params with nefarious values ;)
which does it for you
fwiw
simply true
And YT analytic bs: si=hyX9aModo50DGJnQ
If you really wanna know
if he loves you so
It's in his links (that's where it is!)
I do this when copying Reddit links to share with friends, as I assume that the "deeplink" that shows up in the query is a tracker of some sort. Plus, it just looks nicer.
wished my browser loved me
Deleting parameters such as fbclid, gclid and msclkid will remove Facebook, Google and Microsofts *per user* identification tracking completely.
UTM's are pretty harmless.
glad our efforts are appreciated 🙏🏽
I must be one of the most loving person on the planet.....OR, I kust the most hateful one when it comes to the surveillance state we live in.
happy valentines I clicked “copy without tracking” in Firefox
lmgtfy links are a valid love language.
TIL Firefox loves me.
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