PSA WHEN SHARING LINKS: Please remove anything that comes after a `?` in the url. It is a tracker and puts any Pede that clicks the link at risk of being doxxed by big tech.
Not quite. See mod comment.
Please be careful out there Pedes. ALWAYS check and clean your links before sharing.
EDIT:
Getting a lot of comments about valid use of query parameters (parts with the ? in a url).
It is true, not every query param needs to be removed from a url.
But if you are sharing anything from twitter, fb etc, please remove it (feel free to test the link before hand to make sure it is working)
as a coder i am rolling my fking eyes so hard
true sometimes. but like....
whateverDotcom/page.php?story=TheThingYouWannaRead&showAd=false&emailSubscribe=no
Yeah this post is fuckin retarded and this is horrible advice
Query parameters are used in some capacity on nearly 100% of sites
Once you combine it with the feedback and suggestions in the comments, it's useful information.
Sure, this doesn't apply to 100% of links, but it does to links to MSM articles obtained from Facebook as well as tracking IDs on direct Twitter posts.
The fuckin retarded part is you don't need all that garbage to get to the intended site.
this is not true. 99% of query params are going to be for your user experience, with nothing to do with tracking. 1% of query params are for tracking. you just need to be familiar with where you are sharing links from, and know to remove specific sections from query params that are for tracking
can you write some code to "clean" URLs? Or a browser add-on? Either could be pretty handy, some URLs are severely bloated...
Similar tools to what you are describing already exist and are easily googleable, there are chrome extensions etc..... oh and before you lecture me on muh Google, it's just CIA. Literally the CIA. I'm not scared of the fucking CIA. I value my usage of their extremely just crazy-powerful search engine more than I value my privacy 🥱 but only because I am not nor would I ever be a target of the CIA.
Cool, I hadn't thought about until this post, but I typically will go and purge the crap from URLs.
No lectures from me, I was Chrome until I got a MS Surface Go and switched to Edge being Chrome ran like crap on it. After a few months I'm liking it more than Chrome, and it runs great on my puny tablet-top.