I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters.

I feel alone in making sure that I’m sharing the cleanest possible URLs to others. For example, checking if the URLs are shortened to hide plenty of tracking params.

Just need to vent, thanks for reading.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    To be honest 99% of people, certainly including me, probably don’t recognize tracking payments in a URL unless they’re like affiliate links.

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      1 year ago

      If people were really good at removing that info, they’d probably create a unique hash including all that data that we wouldn’t be able to edit.

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        1 year ago

        Hard to follow that as a rule. Consider any YouTube video, the video id isn’t exactly human readable.

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      1 year ago

      I’m aware that with most privacy issues, a lot of people have limited understanding about it. Hell, I’m probably ignorant on many other privacy issues outside of this topic.