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

reksas@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the way you think

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you go that route, start collecting real ids of loads of random people and then randomly add those. If you add invalid ones, they’ll just get ignored, but with real random ones it really will fuck with their systems

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A few years ago, I came across a tool that did exactly this. It might’ve been a browser extension… When you clicked a link that had trackers, rather than providing a clean URL, it sent incorrect/invalid parameters to the tracking link.

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