Additional recommendation: use linkcleaner.app or Léon URL Cleaner (Android) to automatically remove those pesky tracking parameters.
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exocrinous@startrek.website 3 months agoThat link has your si in it. Your si is a tracking code Google uses to determine who clicked on links you shared. They want to know who your friends are for their social data models.
gitamar@feddit.de 3 months ago
Turun@feddit.de 3 months ago
Firefox has a “copy link without tracking information”, in the right click menu btw
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 months ago
I had to explain this similar concept to a co-worker who always puts his tracking info in his parts orders. He didn’t understand until I started asking him about firearms parts he had been browsing on his own Amazon account.
His links are now sufficiently sanitized.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 months ago
Hold on… how were you able to find out about his amazon browsing habits from a tracking code? I thought end-users wouldn’t have that information and only amazon themselves (+ their 391712 friends).
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SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 months ago
The firearms parts he was viewing were suggested to me as things people you know are interested in. He talks about it all the time, so I have him a hard time on the patriotic-sounding names to the parts.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 months ago
Wow… that’s disturbing