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predstrogen: yeah yeah online privacy is important but really i just hate those share tracking things at the end of links because they look ass ugly

predstrogen: [screenshot of tags] #finding disheveled feral links covered in tracking strings and gently cleaning them and picking off all the tracking strings

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[–] scribs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah generally everything after the "?" in a URL is safe to delete.

[–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not realy. Youtube for example uses stuff after the "?" to actualy specify the video you want.

[–] milady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that's bad url use, at least in my nerdy opinion. From stackoverflow : "'path params = resource identification' and 'query params = resource sorting'"

[–] enitoni@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

That's why they said "generally"