• @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        Eventually I think sites will customize every URL for each user.

        TikTok is quite sneaky. Sharing from their mobile app, you get: https://www.tiktok.com/t/[9digitCode]/

        Only by opening the URL in a browser will you see: https://www.tiktok.com/@[user]/video/[19numerals]?_t=[alphanumericIdentifier]&_r=1 …which can be sanitized.

        Here’s how they took it a step further too: YCombinator.

    • Otter
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      2 years ago

      Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93

      Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.

      I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.

      Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive