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Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FundMECFS@quokk.au⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • artiman@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    this isn't a shitpost this community is being dragged through the mud by non-shitposts

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  • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are URL shortener Apps on F-Droid. Simple share the link to this app and get a short link without this privacy mess.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Typically anything after the “?”. That’s where the parameters live. There are always exceptions.

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      • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

        Can be shortened to:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

        But no shorter.

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    • FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Happy cake day

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There should be an extension that does this

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/clearurls/

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check out this cool video

    www.youtube.com/watch?

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        whuh? querystrings are integral to things like pagination. they are by no means a negative thing.

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      • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not everybody cares for SEO BS

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There is. ?s= for a search, and you can combine it with other parameters such as date or taxonomy terms.

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re still using firefox, right click -> copy clean link. works most of the time.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I usually just do it because shorter links look better than 30 lines of crap

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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  • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time to put new privacy laws in place or force politicans to do it

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is kinda true but also kinda fear mongering. UTM parameters are just to track where you clicked the link from, and don’t contain anything about you personally.

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  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep!

    Only thing I want to see after a ? in a youtube url is t=4m20s

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      personally i like v=aO82NftCga to be in there as well

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.

    For Android users at least, I recommend the Léon URL Cleaner app, when you share a link from many common sources to the URL Cleaner, it removes all that tracking shit for you.

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    • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.

      I guess it was posted here to reach a broader audience.

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      • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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  • diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    • URLCheck
    • URLSanitizer

    Also relevant:

    • LinkSheet
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    • nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also leon

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  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks. I didn’t know about that. Although I tried doing it and the option was grayed out. Any idea what might be wrong? Do I need to change a setting or something? This was on youtube.

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      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t think YouTube actually has tracking parameters in the url normally, but if you use the share button then the youtu.be link will include the video ID as well tracking. But it looks like you can kinda use it there too if you select the link with tracking, it seems to detect that it’s a link and offers the clean link option when you right click it.

        If you go to an Amazon item page then you should see it available when right clicking the address bar.

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    • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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  • nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s also URLCheck:

      f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    hey you, yeah you, you’re finally awake

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  • gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You all got Rick-rolled btw

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      XcQ all the way!

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      • don@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “XcQ, LINK STAYS BLUE! 😁

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only if they typed it in, but I appreciated a recognizable link!

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  • Microw@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Firefox mobile has plenty of add-ons that will just remove it for you

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    • nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I posted a comment above, but if you’re android, check out leon. Super easy to use.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just a reminded, if you have the Clipboard Manager called Ditto

    You can strip those right out of your pasted URLs, even many at once !

    Image

    (for windows users, for linux there is github.com/farzher/clipman but it lacks that particular feature at this time )

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  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • PastaCannon@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • slurp@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like this to trim/handle redirects f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

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  • LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am pretty sure firefox let’s you remove trackers from url.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yup, ita a right click option

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  • renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    does anyone know what ?feature=shared does in youtube links and whether it's worth removing it?

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can remove it, it tells YouTube how you got to that video. In this case someone shared it.

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      • FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.m

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  • dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you are using iOS, you can create a shortcut or download one of the premade shortcuts without any 3rd party apps :3

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    • FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you have a link to any of these :)

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  • Zatore@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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