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[–] 140 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I thought I was alone, waging a pointless war in the dark.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Every time I get a share link I’m always pasting it and deleting everything after the /? Like if there’s an extension to auto strip that shit out, I’d be happier

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    • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I have this app URLCheck from f-droid that intercepts all links i click and l3t me clean all the parameters and so. I can also use it to share from so I can always clean the links before sharing.

    The only app that dosen't work well is soundcloud that the tracking parameter is not recognized as so and I need to manual add characters to contaminate the parameter

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I have that as my default browser. It's great! I just wish certain apps like Discord wouldn't bypass my default browser and open YouTube links directly in the YouTube app. I have to copy them first, and it's a nuisance.

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    [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The trick is knowing which parameters are the necessary ones, and which are for tracking.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)
    • general: utm_source
    • Instagram: igsh
    • YouTube: si

    Just delete that shit. Please add more, people who knows of others!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Everything after and including the ? is unnecessary. 99.9% of the time you can delete that shit (Except for YouTube, cause why the fuck should things be easy)

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    • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I sometimes share youtube shorts with my wife, and I always edit the url so it plays in the default video mode instead of the shorts interface

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Asking for a friend, how do you do this?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Instead of https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<xxx>, do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v<xxx>
    There is an equals sign (=) between v and , but for some reason lemmy keeps removing it

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    You can also use https://www.youtube.com/v/<xxx>. It's the old video link structure, but it still works just fine. It's easier to change it too, since a lot of devices can select text by the word.

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    [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I call these "tainted links" which seems to get the point across pretty well to my friends. Started doing it when youtube began adding tracking info to every shared link

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    • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I noticed tiktok videos my wife sent me would work in the browser if I removed the param queries, since I refuse to download the app. So I made a Firefox browser extension to do it automatically for me when I click one.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    What’s the extension name? I have this exact same issue.

    Edit: does it also work for Instagram reels?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It's called noQuery, I think I had aspirations of updating it more to be more versatile lol but never got around to it again. I could look into that though, I need to update it to work with photos on tiktok also not just video.

    Let me know if it doesn't work, I never had plans of it really going public lol

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Can someone explain the issue here? Genuinely, please educate me about this.

    What are the queries and why don't we like them?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If you browse the web and want to send a URL to a friend.

    Make sure to delete the question mark and every single character after it.

    Everything before is the real URL and will link to the same webpage.

    Everything after are tracking numbers and other parameters that aren't needed. They make the URL longer, but also allow tracking between devices.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is one unfortunate exception to this rule, and that is "?v=.........."

    which, for some video platforms, is the actual reference ti which video it is supposed to play.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    You ever copy a link and it's like 3 paragraphs long? Most likely, most of that link is has additional query string parameters that's used for tracking. You could probably remove most of, if not everything after the '?' in those URLs, and it will work fine, but remove all the tracking info.

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    [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    video.com/watch?v=have-you-seen-this-yet=no&?length=2-fucking-hours

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    • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If you send me a link with a question mark in the URL, we ain’t friends anymore.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    I made an iOS shortcut just for sending YouTube links that strips out any tracking codes in the url.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

    I set this as my default for all links. Its makes doing this kind of thing way easy.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can remove (most) parameters with uBlock Origin and adding this to your Filter List. https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/ClearURLs%20for%20uBo/clear_urls_uboified.txt

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm tired of being tracked by these urchins

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Tarnhelm for Android. 👍🏻

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