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[–] ultimitchow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hold on... how were you able to find out about his amazon browsing habits from a tracking code? I thought end-users wouldn't have that information but only amazon themselves (+ their 391712 friends).

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[–] gitamar@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Additional recommendation: use https://linkcleaner.app or Léon URL Cleaner (Android) to automatically remove those pesky tracking parameters.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

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