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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

CleanURLs extension, bruh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. I always removed the tracking bits in Reddit posts I shared just because they pretty much doubled the length of the link ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh ok, that's interesting. Thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

IE:

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