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
Telling people to remove them isn’t very practical. Educating people is step 1, but step 2 is finding a browser extension or browser that scrubs the identifiers from URLs. You will inevitably forget to remove the tracker from the url if you do it manually.
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! hahahahahahahahaaOh 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.
This tip really doesn’t let me down, turns around and desert me
Don’t some browsers do this automatically?
I would assume there’s an extendion/add-on for than already
Yes, at least for Firefox:
“everything after the ? Symbol can be removed without issue” is a bold statement to make. Reminds me when the TV news had a specialist telling people to look at urls before clicking and check if it ends with “.php” as that would mean it is a virus.
Youtube.com/watch?v=[Video ID]
Difference being that the ? in URLs separates the resource from additional information
So unless some website decides to identify the resource in those query field (for example search results pages in a web search), you are generally safe
In any case, messaging apps will try to navigate to the site to create a caption for your message, and that can be a way to check if it works or not
I’ve been using URL Check on Android to clean links of crap like this.
There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner.
Why is this a shitpost? It’s absolutely correct and factual.
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.
Must be the giant red circles and mixed fonts
There is also copy clean link option in firefox and brave
They are called query parameters and they are used for other things as well. So you can remove the ones you see similar to these but sometimes there might be important stuff you need to get the page to load in those parameters.
After removing them (or even if there was nothing to remove) I test out links I’m sending in a private browser window to check that they would work for other people.
Add this URL Shortener filterlist to uBlock Origin.
This removes the fast majority of these query parameters.Can I ask how do use this? Do I just copy/paste this into the “my filters” tab in uBlock? ;
Go to the “Filter lists” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt ) in the box. Then click “Apply Changes” to save it.
Thank you kindly! 🏅
I honestly couldn’t determine if it was a typo or not, but it’s not “fast” but “vast majority.”
my brain autocorrected it to “vast,” but I like “fast majority” as a phrase
The only way to be safe and private online is to not be online.
How about I just don’t use you tube? I should be ok.
It’s on a lot of links
This. The question marks and ampersand in youtube URLs are separators and can include your entire playlist, as well. If you just want to share the video, then everything from the first ampersand onwards can go.
Legitimate concern, called URL tracking. There’s browser extensions for that.
