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disheveled feral links (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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predstrogen: yeah yeah online privacy is important but really i just hate those share tracking things at the end of links because they look ass ugly

predstrogen: [screenshot of tags] #finding disheveled feral links covered in tracking strings and gently cleaning them and picking off all the tracking strings

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[-] nils@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I always removed the tracking bits in Reddit posts I shared just because they pretty much doubled the length of the link 🤷‍♂️

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

I've never heard of this, what do the tracking bits look like?

[-] RealJoL@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something like

www.example.com/actualcontent&track=ingyouusingauuid

All these &share= variables or similar attachments to links can actually be removed and are mostly used for tracking.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, thanks for the tip. I honestly did not know that was a thing, yikes.

[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Often it is also after the ?

See this spotify sharing link

https://open.spotify.com/track/5hNLVoNAD4OTWKeGFUDXwc?si=Gh2n24SQQcamkyJJ3VZSrA

Si stands for sharing id

But sometimes it is necessary like for youtube.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, that's interesting. Thanks!

[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah np, you can remove it and still have a working link

IE:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5hNLVoNAD4OTWKeGFUDXwc

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Oh nice! Good to know.

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