I don’t use it anymore, but some friends who are still on FB tend to grab whatever link gets copied onto the clipboard and share the spaghetti links like this with a bunch of trackers. I’m guessing this one was Twitter. But regardless, I’m always thinking, do they not notice or care??
If they are still using Facebook, they most likely have a limited understanding of the internet, and have no idea what query parameters are, so they think the full “link from the Google search bar” is required
They dont know. I work in IT and it took some time for my partner to understand why i hate such links and where she can cut the parameters of.
But from now on almost all links she sends are clean and I am grinning everytime, knowing that she learned about those pesky trackers and actually decided to fight 'em.
Wtf is the abomination of a link you just posted. This is a direct link to the article https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703
This is what you posted https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[bbc.news.twitter]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_link_id=F3DFD698-DFEC-11EE-8A76-00CE4B3AC5C4&at_bbc_team=editorial
I don’t use it anymore, but some friends who are still on FB tend to grab whatever link gets copied onto the clipboard and share the spaghetti links like this with a bunch of trackers. I’m guessing this one was Twitter. But regardless, I’m always thinking, do they not notice or care??
If they are still using Facebook, they most likely have a limited understanding of the internet, and have no idea what query parameters are, so they think the full “link from the Google search bar” is required
They dont know. I work in IT and it took some time for my partner to understand why i hate such links and where she can cut the parameters of. But from now on almost all links she sends are clean and I am grinning everytime, knowing that she learned about those pesky trackers and actually decided to fight 'em.
Firefox has an option to auto remove trackers for sharing.
Firefox has a new context menu option “copy link without tracking”. Super handy
NEAT! And I was just thinking about making my own extension.
That’s pretty fucked up, sorry, I was on my phone.
fixed the link