PSA on privuhcy
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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.
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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
WordPress uses a taxonomic system you choose with a mix of the Settings page and how you organize your template hierarchy. To my knowledge there is no out of the box query url functionality in the core system.
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Yep!
Only thing I want to see after a ? in a youtube url is t=4m20s
personally i like v=aO82NftCga to be in there as well
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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.
whuh? querystrings are integral to things like pagination. they are by no means a negative thing.
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ClearURLs was my go to on Firefox, I think it's still great but it gave me trouble on a couple of sites because it modified the url in the address bar (it was like AliExpress and shopee, Chinese e-commerce sites that look like a web dev vomited, so I hardly blame ClearURLs)
Firefox also now has "copy clean link" when you right click the url bar which also works great.
Firefox also now has “copy clean link” when you right click the url bar which also works great.
I am an avid and exclusive user of Firefox and I never discovered this because it never would have occurred to me in a million years to right click the URL bar for any reason. So I'll be damned; there it is. (I always just lasso the relevant part myself and hit ctrl + c.)
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WordPress uses a taxonomic system you choose with a mix of the Settings page and how you organize your template hierarchy. To my knowledge there is no out of the box query url functionality in the core system.
There is.
?s=for a search, and you can combine it with other parameters such as date or taxonomy terms. -
whuh? querystrings are integral to things like pagination. they are by no means a negative thing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I wouldn't call it integral, pagination query parameters can be in the url params just as easily as in the querystring
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XcQ all the way!
wrote last edited by [email protected]“XcQ, LINK STAYS BLUE!”
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There should be an extension that does this
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If you're still using firefox, right click -> copy clean link. works most of the time.
edit: on desktop, idk if mobile supports it or not. Good suggestions below though for mobile.
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I usually just do it because shorter links look better than 30 lines of crap
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Brave for iOS has the Copy Clean Link option. There’s GNAT Cleaner from the App Store but I’ve never used it.
I tried adding screenshots but I haven’t been able to upload photos in almost a week.
