I can’t even copy a url without being tracked. When I copy the urls, they get copied with tracking ids, i don’t know what they are doing with this data but I think they are creating a mesh table of people, their relatives friends etc. So, I am done, I will delete all the social media in a few weeks, use my phone only with federated apps.

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    13 hours ago

    Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much a major social media sites do this. Usually the tracking ID follows the ? in the url so it’s easy to remove. But yeah avoiding those places is probably more ideal.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Isn’t that just from sharing? I usually just copy the URL and send that, not through any plugin or sharing add-on on the site.

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Sharing from the app will create a different URL, where you can’t just snip off the end to clean it up. You have to resolve it first

    • sahin@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Reddit doesn’t have one any more, they do this in the backend to stop getting hatred

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        I mean, they still have UTM tracking in their URLs like:

        /?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

        But you’re right I don’t see a random user agent string in there