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.
PSA on privuhcy
Submitted 1 month ago by FundMECFS@quokk.au to [deleted]
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gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 1 month ago
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That just means that the idiot writing the article got the link provided to them by chatgpt during their research. All it does is tell the website that you visited that you followed a link from the given source. They can aggregate the data from all visitors for metrics, to see where they lag behind in exposure. But they can’t associate users to each other with this method.
Unlike the “igsh” tag in instagram post/reel urls, which when opened, will immediately create a popup stating “join <user that shared the URL with you> on Instagram today!”
Microw@piefed.zip 1 month 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.
PastaCannon@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This is so important, too many people don’t know about this.
But still this is not shitposting. God .world sucks. Ble
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner.
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How about I just don’t use you tube? I should be ok.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
It’s on a lot of links
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It is and it should stop. I’m honestly almost to the point of leaving so much interneting behind so I can regain my skills at old school communication and information gathering. It must be so hard to do that now. It used to be so normal.
I already have bonked all traditional social media including for my small business for reasons like this. I went back to posters and flyers and only promoting online solely in spaces like the fed. It’s been hard but worthwhile I feel and after only about a year I am again getting more traffic. It’s just a small income source but it’s been an interesting foray into change.
slurp@programming.dev 1 month ago
I like this to trim/handle redirects f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
No no no no, keep em up, I can hack them and decrypt and do nasty things with that silly part of
codelink, to learn so much about our lovely friendship. And I promise I would never use that to harm You, really! hahahahahahahahaayoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Oh source from newsletters? emails? oh that means You actively are using email adres, do any big spam company want validated email adres they can spam on? yeah, sure, 0.30€ each! (afaik, black market value is 100-600€ per 1000 valid addresses, just searched)
Tbh, unsure if si=Aa1Uc_fRHXC0ay85 or similars can be decrypted, or are just individual, one time identificators, never tried, but bet some do know how to pull value out of them.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
This tip really doesn’t let me down, turns around and desert me
Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
PSA if you are worried about link parameters giving away where you came from, you should really be worried about HTTP Referrer headers, which are of course turned on by default in most browsers. Be advised turning them off may break some (parts of) certain websites, but most still work fine in my experience.
In Firefox go to about:config page and set
network.http.sendRefererHeaderto 0.TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Or change them to 127.0.0.1 and get rid of some web app firewalls and restrictions
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Time to put new privacy laws in place or force politicans to do it
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month 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
nieminen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Firefox mobile has plenty of add-ons that will just remove it for you
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
I am pretty sure firefox let’s you remove trackers from url.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
does anyone know what ?feature=shared does in youtube links and whether it's worth removing it?
lena@gregtech.eu 1 month ago
You can remove it, it tells YouTube how you got to that video. In this case someone shared it.
FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 month ago
Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.m
Tick_Dracy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
On iOS / iPadOS , you can use a Siri Shortcut called Clean URLs.
Just share the URL with the shortcut, through the share sheet option, and your clean url is automatically copied into the clipboard.
LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month 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.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
If you are using iOS, you can create a shortcut or download one of the premade shortcuts without any 3rd party apps :3
FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 month ago
Do you have a link to any of these :)
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t some browsers do this automatically?
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I would assume there’s an extendion/add-on for than already
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes, at least for Firefox:
Zatore@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I made a Firefox plugin that does this for you on YouTube. It’s called “YouTube Clean Share” if anyone is interested
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Does anyone want to talk about the “share with Facebook” and other similar social media links that track you?
No?
Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The only way to be safe and private online is to not be online.
phx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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
jendrik@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Lemmy removes these (source: i wrote that code)
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
🫡
Thank you
FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 month ago
The most gigachad source there is
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I just use Firefox focus
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Could maybe have a bit of fun randomising those strings.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Why is this a shitpost? It’s absolutely correct and factual.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It is correct and factual. Unfortunately it doesn’t really explain anything. There’s plenty of situations where you wouldn’t want to delete content because they are necessary for functionality.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Must be the giant red circles and mixed fonts