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   Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 04:12:34 JST Gabriel Pettier

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   • :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉

   @nemo it's a bit of an oversimplification, things after the ? are parameters sent to the server, and they are extremely frequently used to track people, sure, but they can be used for a lot more than that, and sometimes removing them will mean people following the link won't get where you expect them to, so unless you know what you are doing, it's better to check that the link still works after removing them, and if it doesn't, to try to find which parameters are useful or not.

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     :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉 (nemo@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 04:12:35 JST :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉

     ⚠️#PSA: Please #edit your #message to #remove the #tracking code (after the "?" check link for examples). This helps keep us all #safer: https://activistchecklist.org/links

     If you're using the browsers #Mullvad, #Tor, #Librewolf, #Firefox or #Brave, you can right-click and select "Copy clean link / Copy without site tracking..." which will automatically remove these tracking codes.
     #Privacy #Security Thank you 💚 🙏

     For Firefox there is also #ClearURLs: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/114776691851917622

     Edited due 2 recommendations.

     Steve's Place repeated this.