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
Hate that stuff. Is there a browser extension or something that blocks it?
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
When someone pretends to love you, they send affiliate links.
happy valentines I clicked “copy without tracking” in Firefox
And YT analytic bs: si=hyX9aModo50DGJnQ
TIL Firefox loves me.
which does it for you
nah. Friends don’t let friends give more data to advertisers.
if they also have a sick sense of humour, they will also stuff all the utm_* query params with nefarious values ;)
I clearly love too many people
glad our efforts are appreciated 🙏🏽
