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minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 day agoIf you browse the web and want to send a URL to a friend. Make sure to delete the question mark and every single character after it. Everything before is the real URL and will link to the same webpage. Everything after are tracking numbers and other parameters that aren’t needed. They make the URL longer, but also allow tracking between devices.
minus-squareDaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 hours agoThere is one unfortunate exception to this rule, and that is “?v=…” which, for some video platforms, is the actual reference ti which video it is supposed to play.
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoFor YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ can actually be edited down to https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
minus-squareTJA!@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoNot everything. Sometimes it is needed. So you have to experiment what is working
If you browse the web and want to send a URL to a friend.
Make sure to delete the question mark and every single character after it.
Everything before is the real URL and will link to the same webpage.
Everything after are tracking numbers and other parameters that aren’t needed. They make the URL longer, but also allow tracking between devices.
There is one unfortunate exception to this rule, and that is “?v=…”
which, for some video platforms, is the actual reference ti which video it is supposed to play.
For YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ can actually be edited down to https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Not everything. Sometimes it is needed. So you have to experiment what is working