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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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There's various well-known tracking parameters that can be stripped, like UTM parameters. Stripping all query parameters would break a lot of sites, like anything in the vein of http://example.com/site.php?id=123
Blanket-removing the query string would break many real links, so I'd imagine it's more nuanced than that.
I really hope they're not sending the URL anywhere..
I don't see why they should send the URL somewhere. For Googley reasons, most tracking parameters start with "utm_". You can remove those pretty naïvely, generally without links breaking.