Comment on YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete)

• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck Google AMP as well.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thankfully haven’t seen AMP links posted to lemmy in a loooong time. At the beginning of the migration it was pretty painful though, had to use some de-amputator website to fix the links since there was (and still is) no bot to handle them

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even Wikipedia does it. I think it’s to see what platforms people are using it on

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  • dreamer@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Keep in mind, there are many valid reasons for tracking or things that can be utilized to track or fingerprint you. I however feel there’s no transparency, there is often no basis for trust for these websites and I feel they share/sell data with reckless abandon so it is from that angle I approach issues like these from.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh for sure, I don’t mind it at all that Wikipedia puts a referrer in the end to indicate what platform the link is shared from. Of course that’s far cry from proper tracking and whatnot.

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