When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘
(Originally published on infosec.exchange: 2024-02-05)
best is to customise it with weird random stuff that put them on a watchlist
I’ve thought about making a personal browser extension that turns all querystring text to
“?source=your_mom”Edit: it’s a bookmarklet 🙃
I never understood why site authors don’t do it on page load after having run their analytics solution of choice. It’s just basic respect to site readers 🤷♂️
that assumes that the average Web surfer (or any Web targeting tech, really) has any clue about this … I keep doing that but my less tech-oriented circles that share links all over the place have no idea 😢
I keep telling them but they see just numbers here and there and it’s a dead-end conversation.
Thanks I am embarrassed I really didn’t know about this. I’m exclusively on mobile I haven’t had a computer for years now. So I think that crap is even more prevalent thanks to people like me, cuz it’s a pain to edit links on mobile so why bother especially if you don’t know why?
I did not expect that when I grew old and would rant about how much better things were back in my day, it would be about the fucking internet lmao
I do it all the time for *everyone* because I love you all
or you’re just conscious of the person receiving the link’s privacy
fwiw
@[email protected] Oh, and what does it mean when someone adds something to the query string?
glad our efforts are appreciated 🙏🏽
And YT analytic bs: si=hyX9aModo50DGJnQ
Yes! Unless it’s a gift link…
happy valentines I clicked “copy without tracking” in Firefox
If you really wanna know
if he loves you so
It’s in his links (that’s where it is!)When someone pretends to love you, they send affiliate links.
unacknowledged truth
