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Ethan Marcottemy love language is manually deleting all the tracking bullshit from a link before i text it to you
apparently
(muting this now, as i’m officially full up on software/plugin/browser recommendations from people who don’t follow me)
(as shakespeare once said, life is a highway)
Andy Bell@beep but ethan you haven’t allowed me to talk about arc the best brows…[gets yanked off the internet by a comically large cane]
@beep ?utm_source=I&utm_campaign=love_u
George 🦊 Fox 🇺🇦@beep I try this too. I wish browsers had a preference or there was a plugin for stripping recognized query strings when copying URLs
@burblebeep Man, same. Firefox rolled out a “copy link without site tracking” thing that’s pretty neat — wish it was the default, and that more browsers had it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
noodlejetski 
@burblebeep @beep if you use uBlock Origin (and you should, because it actually makes the internet usable again!), you can add this list to trim most of them automatically when opening a link: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
MaeveDoes the chrome or edge version work with ddg browser, because I just had my eyes criminally sexually assaulted by a link I clicked to read a story. Idk if the story is untrue or not but honestly, if I want to see porn, I know how to access it.
draeath@burblebeep @beep I have a Firefox addon at work that does exactly this. They do exist (I'd name it but I'm not there right now)
It/they should work in the mobile version as well, though I haven't tried.
goldenmeanie@beep My kid made me a share sheet shortcut to do this and it was life changing! ✊🏻
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@goldenmeanie I’ve got one on mobile too! The best!
Kudra 
@goldenmeanie @beep is there a similar app on Android? I want this, would save so much time!
Michael U@goldenmeanie hi this looks great, do you (or your kid!) have any pointers for creating the shortcut? I know how to edit the share sheet, just not sure what I'd be adding that would strip the links
@goldenmeanie oh I think I found it - someone already created the shortcut and made it available. pasting here in case someone else wonders.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/loph8j/a_simple_shortcut_to_remove_tracking_tokens_from/
Rick@goldenmeanie i would like this
Mark Rotteveel@beep I highly recommend using Firefox, and its "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" context menu option
Ethan Marcotte (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Man, same. Firefox rolled out a “copy link without site tracking” thing that’s pretty neat — wish it was the default, and that more browsers had it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
Kwon@beep lol ethan we have the EXACT same sense of humor (in addition to a deep appreciation for clean URLs 😆) https://mastodon.social/@rjkwon/109966720199809573
@rjkwon oh my god rachel AMAZING 🏆 and you’re over a year ahead of me, no less!!
Michael Knepprath
J Λ M Ξ S@beep mine is changing the share identifiers to poop
Overcast - Dousing This Flame (guitar cover)
Matthew Haughey@beep the greatest tweet ever was someone ten years ago saying that stripping every utm from URLs before you send them was like deveining shrimp before your guests arrive to your party: it’s what a good host does for people they love
Eric Portis@mathowie oh my god matt
that’s perfect
Stuart Langridge@beep you might also like https://rknight.me/apps/tracker-zapper/ for Mac or https://www.kryogenix.org/code/utm_no/ for Linux (or Firefox's built in thing, as you say) for stripping out tracking crap from copied links, although this doesn't help on phones, and it's less loving if software does it for you than if you handcraft it yourself. But I think people will be OK with that :)
@sil Oh, hey, thanks Stuart! Both new to me!
George Station@beep I realize that "nobody here is on Facebook" but I always do that with ?fbclid tracking.
Luke Dorny 
Jargoggles@beep
I feel seen.
I feel seen.
Pseudo NymThose "utm" values are use settable to what ever you want, and show up on marketing's tracking dashboards.
Just saying...
fabiosantoscode@pseudonym @beep maybe you need a big enough platform? I'm going to ask a data analyst I know
@pseudonym @beep nah they think you only need a few entries to make it
The Digital Polyglot™
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Ricki Yasha Tarr@beep Thank you for your service
@beep the only love language
BronMason For Kamala 2024Haha—thanks! I was just thinking about “love languages” today to counsel my kid, but couldn’t remember the phrase to look them up. I know there were 4, but only remember the ones for me and my hubby.
Ps— I’m pretty sure “eliminating tracking bullshit” wasn’t one of them, but I always like to learn new things . 😹
Max Wheeler@beep I’ve been using https://sindresorhus.com/velja for opening links in specific apps/browsers and one of its glorious features is that it’ll strip tracking parameters from all opened/copied links.
TBYG@beep I do the same thing!
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦I've done the same thing for years.
1337 $#!+ I did that@beep tell us more
Cocaine Owlbear@beep this is the content I come to the fediverse for.
mathildeD_V 
@beep O U I
Nathan Williams@beep Cleaning the dinglequeries.
耀西 
🌐 ☸️@beep I do the same! I’m not the only weirdo!