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posted ago by Greekish ago by Greekish +193 / -0

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".

https://www.quordlepuzzles.com/collections/store-closing?utm_campaign=A092001&fbclid=IvAR310ouLFG1VyqbKUcjrgh_ZUf-9W7izZlMELOe4JQAwbTXB6RTZ2SWvQMM

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!