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   Oasus Plainsview :verified: (itsoasus@pawb.fun)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:27:03 JST Oasus Plainsview :verified:

   Sanitize your youtube links!

   Stolen from gryphoneer

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:30:09 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @itsOasus

     BREAKING:

     #Google uses #YouTube links to identify your YT account and link it to others, creating security risks.

     "Why you should delete that?

     "...1. You post that link on social media, Google crawler finds it, checks the data base and now it knows this account on other social media belongs to you. ..."

     https://pawb.fun/@itsOasus/111110960813535424

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     e(Ag)le (silvereagle@furry.engineer)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:31:00 JST e(Ag)le

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     • Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF

     @Neybulot @itsOasus I do the same with any link, stripping off the query string unless it's absolutely necessary for the link's operation.

     All that UTM_SOURCE stuff is Google Analytics tracking from back when it was called Urchin Tracking Monitor.

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     Oasus Plainsview :verified: (itsoasus@pawb.fun)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:31:00 JST Oasus Plainsview :verified:

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     • e(Ag)le
     • Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF

     @silvereagle @Neybulot yeah ever since I noticed twitter doing that shit I was stripping that shit right the fuck out too

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     Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF (neybulot@pawb.fun)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:31:01 JST Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF

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     @itsOasus I actually do this instinctively and have for years now, wish more people would

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     Calai 🏳️‍⚧️ :blobfoxcheck: (calaifur@pawb.fun)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:31:42 JST Calai 🏳️‍⚧️ :blobfoxcheck:

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     • Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF
     • Veloxization

     @itsOasus @veloxization @Neybulot
     Amazon and Walmart are super annoying for doing that. Literally a CVS receipt sized url

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     Veloxization (veloxization@packmates.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 23:31:43 JST Veloxization

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     • Vincent Hayes🌹:bisexual_flag:🔜MFF

     @Neybulot @itsOasus I do it too, and not just with YT links. It annoys me so much when I copy a shareable URL and it's like domain.com/page?tracker=byebyeprivacy&id=whythehelldoesaurlhavetobethislong

     Monster URLs like that are *so* annoying to look at.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 06:37:30 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     • Simon

     @oe_simon

     Thanks.
     I figured, not a TikTok (=CCP Spyware) user, fortunately.

     Any suggestions for Firefox and Opera, maybe Edge (I use that for required add-blocker free pages only) add-ons?

     @itsOasus

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 06:51:22 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     • Simon

     @oe_simon

     Thanks, I understood that part. I also understood the implications of not doing so very well.
     Being a data (analysis) person mysel, if you gave me just one "backlink" in thousands of posts, I would find you.
     IMHO this is a 0% error question.
     Therefore, it out to be automated, which I had asked for an a browser extension, which I think someone had mentioned existing.

     @itsOasus

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     Marcel Waldvogel (marcel@waldvogel.family)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 16:48:36 JST Marcel Waldvogel

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     Actually, sanitize *all* the links you use or pass on!

     utm_*, gclid, …

     There is even a #Firefox #AddOn which does this automatically for you (and also skips some tracking-only redirects):
     https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/clearurls/

     @HistoPol @itsOasus

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     iam-py-test :unverified: (iampytest1@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:24:10 JST iam-py-test :unverified:

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     • Marcel Waldvogel
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • oatmeal 🐧

     @marcel @oatmeal @HistoPol @itsOasus Technically, yes. However, it is not allowed for security reasons.
     This has been suggested and rejected: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/2693

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     Marcel Waldvogel (marcel@waldvogel.family)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:24:13 JST Marcel Waldvogel

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • oatmeal 🐧

     @oatmeal @HistoPol @itsOasus
     If #uBlockOrigin can strip parameters from the URL, they should also be able to change other parts of the URL?

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     oatmeal 🐧 (oatmeal@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:24:15 JST oatmeal 🐧

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     • Marcel Waldvogel
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @marcel @HistoPol @itsOasus I don’t think this is possible with dns/host blockers in general, is it?

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     Marcel Waldvogel (marcel@waldvogel.family)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:24:17 JST Marcel Waldvogel

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • oatmeal 🐧

     @oatmeal @HistoPol @itsOasus
     Thank you! Indeed, #uBlockOrigin can do filter #tracking parameters in URLs.

     However, I needed to manually activate the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" privacy filter, it wasn't on (and doesn't seem to be active on fresh installs either).

     (I also didn't see the "skip redirect" feature in #uBO.)

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     oatmeal 🐧 (oatmeal@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:24:18 JST oatmeal 🐧

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     • Marcel Waldvogel
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @marcel @HistoPol @itsOasus based on the following; this extension, and many others, might be redundant if you’re using ublock origin and current privacy settings.

     https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

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     iam-py-test :unverified: (iampytest1@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:25:20 JST iam-py-test :unverified:

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     • Marcel Waldvogel
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • oatmeal 🐧

     @marcel @oatmeal @HistoPol @itsOasus There is a way to do it with links: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#href-sanitizerjs-

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     Servelan (servelan@newsie.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 08:06:18 JST Servelan

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     • Marcel Waldvogel
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • oatmeal 🐧

     @marcel @HistoPol @itsOasus @oatmeal If you use Vivaldi, you can get ClearURLS from the Chrome store.