Shared on Facebook with the caption “Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?”

It’s an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper “The Australian”, so I won’t link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title “The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled” and byline “by Sam McPhee”.

  • someguy3
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    4 months ago

    Delete the ? and everything after it to remove tracking info.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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      4 months ago

      Be careful telling people to do that, because it’ll break everything if they try to do it with a regular non-shortened URL!

      But yes, 100% always delete the ‘si’ part.

      • lad@programming.dev
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        4 months ago

        Also some sites sign the link in the parameters and removing tracking information renders the link unusable. Those bastards

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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          4 months ago

          Yeah true. Facebook’s started doing this. But I was just talking about YouTube links specifically.