Every website these days will just hijack any link posted on their service and there's not a whole lot you can do other than just physically typing in the intended address character by character. No one wants to do that. No one cares. And these platforms know that. That's why they do it π
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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iOS 17 is supposed to do this automatically now.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/ios-17-link-tracking-protection/
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A personal gripe of mine. I can't get any of my friends/family to care...
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I care about this also. I used to clean them up, but what I've started doing is adding and replacing parts of the share id. And I'll usually put something stupid in there like "booger", just to screw up their tracking data.
I'm with you!!
I feel the same, I actually feel weird when someone shares with me a url with tracking or source tags, like bro youβre telling on yourselfβ¦ do you not care?!
Amen.
Good reminder, I'd never considered that π So why did lots of reddit subs discourage the use of URL shorteners? Was this just standard Reddit badness?
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I shall do it, because i hate this URL ads, even more the fucking link shortener, because they disguised it and avoid to see the destination. Because of this i use 2 extension, a Link unshortener, which reveal the real URL, when i click on a shorten link also the Adguardfilter in the Vivaldi's own trackerblocker, You can find more filters here:
I always just reply with the real URL.