Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

@Uglesett

Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue

Uhhhh not really

That also has stuff like timestamps. And in some links, such as on youtube.com/watch?v=videocode, the actually important part of the link is also after the ? (as opposed to on youtu.be/videocode).

@Uglesett @luana yeah, usually just looking for si or utm or source or ref does the trick those 4 are all ive ever seen lol

Caching servers often need to easily recognize them so they don’t just think a different tracking link means they need to generate a totally new page, so it’s pretty rare for them to be something totally random