• exocrinous@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    That link has your si in it. Your si is a tracking code Google uses to determine who clicked on links you shared. They want to know who your friends are for their social data models.

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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      8 months ago

      I had to explain this similar concept to a co-worker who always puts his tracking info in his parts orders. He didn’t understand until I started asking him about firearms parts he had been browsing on his own Amazon account.

      His links are now sufficiently sanitized.

      • Turun@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        Firefox has a “copy link without tracking information”, in the right click menu btw