PSA on privuhcy
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Thing I find funny is when the url seems to indicate you came from an email or something. Now if I share it, anyone who clicks will also count as coming from an email. Dumass ruining your own statistics
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I always do this when I post YouTube links. Be damned if I want to be associated with you lot! (Seriously though, it’s a good idea to do)
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
Typically anything after the "?". That's where the parameters live. There are always exceptions.
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You all got Rick-rolled btw
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You all got Rick-rolled btw
Only if they typed it in, but I appreciated a recognizable link!
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Everything after the ? can be safely removed
This is usually true but but not always. There's often times when a URL query like that is used to choose the page to load. I believe wordpress does this
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This is so important, too many people don’t know about this.
But still this is not shitposting. God .world sucks. Ble
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Yep!
Only thing I want to see after a ? in a youtube url is t=4m20s
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You all got Rick-rolled btw
XcQ all the way!
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I am pretty sure firefox let's you remove trackers from url.
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firefox has a right click option to remove those
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I am pretty sure firefox let's you remove trackers from url.
wrote last edited by [email protected]yup, its a right click option
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Typically anything after the "?". That's where the parameters live. There are always exceptions.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There are many URLs that require parameters to load a resource (and aren’t necessarily tracking anything). With YouTube’s non-shortened links (for example), the video ID is after the
?, but is usually (but not always) immediately after.This:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQCan be shortened to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQBut no shorter.
(actually, you can remove the
www.but that’s not relevant for illustrating my point)LOL: thank you Voyager or Lemmy.world for stripping it even from my inline code.
Here’s what I was trying to post:
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I'm on mobile so I will have to drop a link later (if ever)
but do a websearch for the utility link cleaner
It's awesome. Thank me later.
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Everything after the ? can be safely removed
This is usually true but but not always. There's often times when a URL query like that is used to choose the page to load. I believe wordpress does this
Only on "I have really bad SEO" kinds of blogs. Query strings have been considered a negative thing for many many years.
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I made a Firefox plugin that does this for you on YouTube. It's called "YouTube Clean Share" if anyone is interested
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Could maybe have a bit of fun randomising those strings.
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Only on "I have really bad SEO" kinds of blogs. Query strings have been considered a negative thing for many many years.
Not everybody cares for SEO BS
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Everything after the ? can be safely removed
This is usually true but but not always. There's often times when a URL query like that is used to choose the page to load. I believe wordpress does this
Sometimes I'll post a picture straight from a duckduckgo search, and it doesn't work without the stuff after the ?
(I'm also not sure how long the url is valid for, so I try not to do this too often)
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This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.
I guess it was posted here to reach a broader audience.
I'm upset, the tech and privacy communities need to step it up cause I've never seen this fact. I kinda knew URLs had a lot of junk, but I never knew what could be removed.
