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)

  • Andrea Giammarchi@mastodon.social
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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