When you post a link, PLEASE remove the "?" and the trackers that follow it.
Random example; I picked this link from Fakebook. You can see that it's from Fakebook because it includes "fbclid".
As well as showing that it's from a Fakebook user, it probably also includes other information about me. (Well, it would if I hadn't changed some characters!)
The link works perfectly well without the trackers:
https://www.quordlepuzzles.com/collections/store-closing
A while ago, someone here posted a link to Reddit. The trackers in the link allowed me to log in to their Reddit account and to post as them! (Naughty me.) So PLEASE don't do it!
Disclaimer: I have no connection with quordlepuzzles. It's just a random link that I picked.
EDIT: Youtube links do need the part with the ? in them. More specifically the watch?v=random characters part. Also might include a jump to a start time as in &time=456s
Thanks to u/metalheadtruth for reminding me!
Excellent question! That will happen occasionally. If you can't delete at least part of the tracker without breaking the link, then please go to www.archive.is and make an archive. Then use that link (from the address line).
Again, for many of us, this doesn't work anymore. This is why I never post archive links.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
I'm not clear on what "doesn't work". Could you please elucidate? What error message do you see when you copy-paste the link into www.archive.is ?
Site just spins as DNS won't resolve. Read the link as to why. I guess people it works for are somehow on a different DNS but I actually tried manually specifying a couple alternates and that didn't work either (this was before I discovered this explanation and realized the site itself sucks in terms of their behavior on the matter - which, ironically enough, involves tracking)!
I have found using different browsers or alt VPN locations have worked from time to time. Though that may not resolve the DNS. It has been over a de ade since I was working those areas.