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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

There are still lots of tracking parameters it doesn't remove. It does not bypass redirects like doubleclick.net/redirect?url=..., either.

I'd prefer if it worked with personal and community managed filters, like every good adblocker does now.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It'll warn you before you go to shit tracking redirectors though.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

The point is to bypass them, so it won't go to https://click-tracker.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Findex.php%23content%3Fpage%3Dwelcome%26say%3Dhello&clickID=a68bd9003 but https://example.com/index.php#content?page=welcome&say=hello already.

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[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 22 points 2 years ago

Common Firefox W

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[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

there's even an extension to do that automatically, clearurls if i recall correctly

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

I didn't know about that! I always use Ctrl+C of course. I'll look out for this next time

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess I really love everyone because I've just always done that

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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Me too, but just to screw over Amazon's social graph making.

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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I throw garbage in there just got fun ☺️

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's less love and more spite.

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

Same

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[–] freamon@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you'd like).

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you're on lemmy.world, it's here: https://lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you're not, it's available on the !tails@lemmon.website community.

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[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

even on the federated web, you can't escape the screenshots

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

The referent of a link can be changed or deleted. A screenshot cannot.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (12 children)

…seems a bit crazy. …

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously …

Tee-hee :) Point taken though!

No way to cross post is there?

Also would be neat to have a blended account feature - infosec.exchange is defederated from sh.itjust.works even though we’re OK I swear. Might be time to raise that discussion again.

Anyway only seeing this because of the repost. And for the visually paired (easy of seeing?) (not blind?), screenshots of text can sometimes have a je ne sais quoi. A bit of text fitting just so in the right font, maybe a light background breaking the monotony of one’s dark mode…

Screenshots, surprisingly resilient in $current_year. One day Lemmy could autotranscribe screenshots and include original post date, platform, author… maybe how deep fried it was too.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Honestly I feel like a screenshot of a toot is better than just seeing a Lemmy-formated toot.

Maybe a cross-post feature which generates what the screenshot effectively shows but formatted in html to match mastodon formatting with functioning links that's hosted on the instance the Lemmy community is in to avoid federation issues?

Edit to add: on the other hand I regularly forward the screenshots to friends on other platforms, so I'd either screenshot the thing created to stop screenshots or need a share/download button to create a image because I know my friends ain't interested in clicking a wierd fediverse link to view a 2 sentence joke they may or may not find funny

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Neither of those links load in Voyager, so I think a screenshot is great.

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[–] freamon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What's happened for you there isn't a problem for screenshots to really fix - it's whatever frontend you're using not giving lemmy's backend enough time to fetch a remote community. This happens loads - I even made a little video about it the other day: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13703060

When you clicked on !tails@lemmon.website, it did actually go through to dbzer0, and Voyager has no trouble with the community once it's though. A little ironically perhaps, but here's a hastily combined screenshot showing it at dbzer0 and on Voyager:

edit: and the link to the post of course: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13850191

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

and checks it still works

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

?utm_source=my-crush

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 17 points 2 years ago*

I actually remove stuff like the "feature=sharing" nonsense from the end of youtube memes I share pretty regularly

[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

And send bank account and phone numbers in a separate message for easy copying

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Full format addresses so they automatically turn into links

No: 123 Main St Yes: 123 Main St, Burgerville, TN 70302

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Firefox: Rt-click - "Copy without Site Tracking"

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago*

Firefox best browser

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[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh no I think I'm sending some people the wrong kind of message... I didn't mean to...

[–] EndHD@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

it's ok. i figured we could never be more than friends

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[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I change it by adding profanities

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Will the links still work? This gives me ideas

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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

They're just for marketing stats, to track where people are visiting from. I've had to add them in the past (for work) to differentiate marketing campaigns, links in emails vs SMS, etc

Look up "UTM parameters" for a full breakdown of how these are used.

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[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yep, they'll work.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

I guess I love more people than I care to acknowledge

[–] topperharlie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

jeff, you are mixing love with OCD... again

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

I feel so seen ❤️

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

If you set URLCheck as a default browser and you can automate the process of making people think you love them

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[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Nice to see an app for it.

Android 13 and above comes with a clipboard editor which is super handy. I just edit all my links in that.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

On iOS, I use the Clean URLs iOS shortcut to cleanup links & remove tracking parameters.

Credit: mastodon.social/@DavidBlue

I want to create a version that adds a check for a YouTube link and creates a Piped.video link too - save me a few seconds each time.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

see a few that just paste the google news links. we can never be friends

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Unless of course you want them to look at something specific that the query string automatically selects for them. It'd be pretty confusing in that case if you removed the query string and they're just looking at thousands of entries in a table or something.

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

my big sister does this. i love her so much

[–] TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is my love language