PSA on privuhcy
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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.
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I wouldn't call it integral, pagination query parameters can be in the url params just as easily as in the querystring
that's very hard to make idiomatic, and if it's in the querystring it's easier to change manually because you can annotate each entry more easily.
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hey you, yeah you, you're finally awake
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I just use Firefox focus
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So how about when a link is shared on Lemmy or Reddit or FB? Do the latter strip out the identifiers, or does that one person's reshared post associate them with the clicks of thousands of others?
For web links, they'd also be able to find the source from the referrer tags etc
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I wouldn't call it integral, pagination query parameters can be in the url params just as easily as in the querystring
Pagination query params can be in the URL params, but that’s not normal at all. They’re pretty much always use query params, and it’s very reasonable to do so. Filtering, search, and pagination all typically go in query params.
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I usually just do it because shorter links look better than 30 lines of crap
Right? The fact that this is an extra bit of tracking information I don't want makes this an easy sell for anyone looking for a reason to do this, but for me it's because it just makes links uglier.
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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.
The way I've always figured it out is by deleting some, then loading the page in a different browser or an incognito window, and repeat until the URL is as minimal as possible, while still loading correctly. For websites you use regularly, you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
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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:
Nice try.
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If you run across a link with a regular "?utm_source=.." , that can not tell people anything about you. It simply tells the website "register one click onto this article coming from this specific newsletter we sent out". It does not tie this information to you.
With other tracking things, what is described here is absolutely possible though.
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Thank you so much for this notice. I use the copy doesn’t link option in Firefox but when sharing links from other applications it doesn’t have that feature.
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Most of my internetin' is done on mobile, because I'm very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I'm normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that's it's not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don't know how to ensure I'm not breaking a link
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
I mean that's part of the fun of surfing the web, you get to play a fun puzzle game of "How to Lobotomize a URL"
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I use an app called "Leon URL Cleaner" from F-Droid. Does a really good job removing tracking params, and only adds one extra step to sharing a URL.
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Most of my internetin' is done on mobile, because I'm very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I'm normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that's it's not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don't know how to ensure I'm not breaking a link
I posted a comment above, but if you're android, check out leon. Super easy to use.
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Also leon
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There should be an extension that does this
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This is kinda true but also kinda fear mongering. UTM parameters are just to track where you clicked the link from. They're usually not dynamic, and don't contain anything about you personally. The example in the screenshot
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Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.
Generally, if it's just a plain word or something you can read easily, then it's safe to keep it. If it's a jumble of seemingly random letters, it's probably a tracking code of some sort.
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I did not know what those were for before seeing this but I remeber seeing "source=chat_gpt" next to a link to a source in a news article and thought that it was odd.
