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

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example@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I haven’t checked how reddit does this but just from the example or seems like there is no anti tracking from the use of urlcheck that you’re describing.

reddit appears to generate tracking link with a specific numeric identifier in their database, so instead of attaching a bunch of removable url parameters they instead do a lookup in their database and then redirect to the original destination.

this also means your app checking the redirect will need to fetch the url to determine the destination, which means their tracking still works just fine.

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