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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978
No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. ๐ฅณ
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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Why wouldn't this simply be default behavior, and then they could add a "Copy link with tracking" menu item?
It might become the default a little later on, they want to make sure it works ok first as an experimental feature before pushing it as a default would be my guess.
Hadn't thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.
I do that manually. In about 1 out of 10, what looks like tracking stuff is actually needed for the link to work. So I'd expect that copy without site tracking option to not work 100% of the time.
Probably just removes known tracking GET parameters like
utm_*. Just from a parameter name and content it is impossble to infer the use.