"Copy Link Without Site Tracking" now on @firefox ! ๐
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Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. Amazon and YouTube are the only two I know of that use those strings for specific pages or content.
Yup. Iโm copying some Audible links now and the ampersand isnโt encrypted and the query string starts after the ? instead of the last slash, so there are different ways of doing it. We couldnโt guess at that, though! :)
In general, you see it more often for older websites or older server software, because we only really worked out around the year 2010 or so, that essential information for identifying a resource should be placed in the path.
Beforehand, it was largely something that webpage authors decided based on gut feeling...