disheveled feral links
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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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CleanURLs extension, bruh.
Exactly. I always removed the tracking bits in Reddit posts I shared just because they pretty much doubled the length of the link 🤷♂️
I've never heard of this, what do the tracking bits look like?
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.
Oh ok, thanks for the tip. I honestly did not know that was a thing, yikes.
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.
Oh ok, that's interesting. Thanks!
Yeah np, you can remove it and still have a working link
IE:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hNLVoNAD4OTWKeGFUDXwc
Oh nice! Good to know.