Gregory's Servermy love language is manually deleting all the tracking bullshit from a link before i text it to you
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(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) @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  @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 @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. @beep The iOS Shortcut source, for posterity. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/da33ada0f4d34ab891fc596361f3df0f  @goldenmeanie @beep is there a similar app on Android? I want this, would save so much time! @beep I highly recommend using Firefox, and its "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" context menu option @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  @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  @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 :) @beep I realize that "nobody here is on Facebook" but I always do that with ?fbclid tracking. @beep I made a shortcut for this: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8c6c427e075c4a65b71063c86e84c52f   Those "utm" values are use settable to what ever you want, and show up on marketing's tracking dashboards. Just saying...  @pseudonym so you suggest a browser extension to rewrite them automatically? Interesting. 🤔 @beep @pseudonym @beep maybe you need a big enough platform? I'm going to ask a data analyst I know     Haha—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 . 😹 @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. |
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