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minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI forget, where do you cut a link to remove the tracked bit?
minus-squarezedgeist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoBasically, anything after the ?, unless there are search terms in there
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month agoThat partly depends on the site, but to keep it simple, if you’re on Android, I highly recommend Léon URL cleaner app. But I’ll use two different forms of a YouTube link as examples of how it can be both simple and confusing… https://youtu.be/LGe3zC6_iro ?si=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGe3zC6_iro You see that ?si=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx shit, yeah that’s their tracking data…
I forget, where do you cut a link to remove the tracked bit?
Basically, anything after the ?, unless there are search terms in there
That partly depends on the site, but to keep it simple, if you’re on Android, I highly recommend Léon URL cleaner app.
But I’ll use two different forms of a YouTube link as examples of how it can be both simple and confusing…
You see that ?si=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx shit, yeah that’s their tracking data…