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PSA on privuhcy
Submitted 2 days ago by FundMECFS@quokk.au to [deleted]
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moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
How about I just don’t use you tube? I should be ok.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
It’s on a lot of links
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
nieminen@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There’s also URLCheck:
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days 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)
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days 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 !
(for windows users, for linux there is github.com/farzher/clipman but it lacks that particular feature at this time )
gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 2 days 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.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day 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!”
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 days 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
Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 day 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 day ago
Or change them to 127.0.0.1 and get rid of some web app firewalls and restrictions
Microw@piefed.zip 2 days 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 2 days ago
This is so important, too many people don’t know about this.
But still this is not shitposting. God .world sucks. Ble
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Time to put new privacy laws in place or force politicans to do it
Tick_Dracy@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.
slurp@programming.dev 2 days ago
I like this to trim/handle redirects f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 days 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 2 days ago
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Firefox mobile has plenty of add-ons that will just remove it for you
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I am pretty sure firefox let’s you remove trackers from url.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
yup, ita a right click option
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
does anyone know what ?feature=shared does in youtube links and whether it's worth removing it?
lena@gregtech.eu 2 days ago
You can remove it, it tells YouTube how you got to that video. In this case someone shared it.
FundMECFS@quokk.au 2 days ago
Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.m
LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days 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.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The only way to be safe and private online is to not be online.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days 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 2 days ago
Do you have a link to any of these :)
Zatore@lemmy.zip 2 days 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 2 days 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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
firefox has a right click option to remove those
phx@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 day ago
Lemmy removes these (source: i wrote that code)
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
🫡
Thank you
FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 day ago
The most gigachad source there is
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I just use Firefox focus
TransDesiTrekkie@startrek.website 2 days ago
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.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Could maybe have a bit of fun randomising those strings.
don@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You all got Rick-rolled btw
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 days ago
XcQ all the way!
don@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
“XcQ, LINK STAYS BLUE! 😁
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Only if they typed it in, but I appreciated a recognizable link!
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And you just lost the game