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Totally unrelated to the Boeing that lost a wheel last week or the Boeing that had "a strong movement" today, injuring 50.

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

I don't use it anymore, but some friends who are still on FB tend to grab whatever link gets copied onto the clipboard and share the spaghetti links like this with a bunch of trackers. I'm guessing this one was Twitter. But regardless, I'm always thinking, do they not notice or care??

[-] IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 months ago

If they are still using Facebook, they most likely have a limited understanding of the internet, and have no idea what query parameters are, so they think the full "link from the Google search bar" is required

[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

They dont know. I work in IT and it took some time for my partner to understand why i hate such links and where she can cut the parameters of. But from now on almost all links she sends are clean and I am grinning everytime, knowing that she learned about those pesky trackers and actually decided to fight 'em.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Firefox has an option to auto remove trackers for sharing.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

Firefox has a new context menu option "copy link without tracking". Super handy

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

NEAT! And I was just thinking about making my own extension.

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