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 🤷♂️
wished my browser loved me
Deleting parameters such as fbclid, gclid and msclkid will remove Facebook, Google and Microsofts *per user* identification tracking completely.
UTM’s are pretty harmless.
glad our efforts are appreciated 🙏🏽
dood do you know just how many times this toot has shown up in my feed
fwiw
simply true
If you really wanna know
if he loves you so
It’s in his links (that’s where it is!)TIL Firefox loves me.
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.
Hate that stuff. Is there a browser extension or something that blocks it?
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.
Firefox loves its users. They build a function that does this.
We just need more parameters added to this function, so they get removed.