For future reference, the extra stuff is everything after the question mark. It’s not always bad stuff; the question mark is for a bunch of queries, including links to specific time stamps on YouTube videos. Adding ?t=42 to the end of a clean YouTube link will start the video at 42 seconds as an example: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?t=42
Although these “query strings” are sometimes useful, most of the time, they’re just for tracking purposes and can be removed with no issue. “If you don’t know what it does, it’s probably not needed” is a good rule of thumb
Remember to remove all of the tracking shit on reddit links:
Raw link with no tracking (and using old Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/14b9fvg/someone_replaced_my_stem_cap_with_a_dick/
Ok. Will try to do this in the future. Not really a massive tech guy so I wouldn’t really know any of this until people tell me.
For future reference, the extra stuff is everything after the question mark. It’s not always bad stuff; the question mark is for a bunch of queries, including links to specific time stamps on YouTube videos. Adding ?t=42 to the end of a clean YouTube link will start the video at 42 seconds as an example: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?t=42
Although these “query strings” are sometimes useful, most of the time, they’re just for tracking purposes and can be removed with no issue. “If you don’t know what it does, it’s probably not needed” is a good rule of thumb
That’s a great example video; explains it really well.
You can go to urlclean.com and there’s also a nice iOS app I use called ‘clean links’ if you’re mobile.
If you leave all the tracking shit, does it flood their tracking system with garbage signal? Maybe we should leave it in.