When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘
(Originally published on infosec.exchange: 2024-02-05)
best is to customise it with weird random stuff that put them on a watchlist
I’ve thought about making a personal browser extension that turns all querystring text to
“?source=your_mom”Edit: it’s a bookmarklet 🙃
I never understood why site authors don’t do it on page load after having run their analytics solution of choice. It’s just basic respect to site readers 🤷♂️
fwiw
that assumes that the average Web surfer (or any Web targeting tech, really) has any clue about this … I keep doing that but my less tech-oriented circles that share links all over the place have no idea 😢
I keep telling them but they see just numbers here and there and it’s a dead-end conversation.
Thanks I am embarrassed I really didn’t know about this. I’m exclusively on mobile I haven’t had a computer for years now. So I think that crap is even more prevalent thanks to people like me, cuz it’s a pain to edit links on mobile so why bother especially if you don’t know why?
I did not expect that when I grew old and would rant about how much better things were back in my day, it would be about the fucking internet lmao
Hate that stuff. Is there a browser extension or something that blocks it?
Yes! Unless it’s a gift link…
@[email protected] Oh, and what does it mean when someone adds something to the query string?
I do this when copying Reddit links to share with friends, as I assume that the “deeplink” that shows up in the query is a tracker of some sort. Plus, it just looks nicer.
which does it for you
I love everyone by that standard
happy valentines I clicked “copy without tracking” in Firefox
I do this!
truth!
Amazon etc. have started to become smarter by offering a “share” icon that strips all of that junk. I don’t know why other platforms (like search engines) don’t.
Oh, and CMS platforms. You should see how many blogs are out there with their links still enshrined in phishing protection URLs because they copied them out of their email.
