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hilema

If we were tectonic plates would you grind against me be honest

yesornopolls

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 16, 2025

batch-official

Time for a post that doesn't comply with the gimmick...

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

You should do this.

digitaldiscipline

Firefox users, when you right-click to copy a URL, it will give you the option to "copy clean link" which does what prev describes for you automatically. 10/10.

gyokusai

Time Source: Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson.

#:(

nattyjayna

embarrassment has good bones

gay-mormon-wizard

today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

lets-burn-down-the-post-office

“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book

columbusswift

post reputation stans will never understand what it was like when that first snake video dropped. the chaos that was coursing through my body…..

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

“i dreamed about it in the dark the night i thought that i might die” is so underrated

daily-spooky

erzvolnes

certain kind of tragedy i think in still following your childhood best friends online. like once upon a time you knew me better than anyone. i thought we would be friends forever. now we are Adults and Different and even despite that I so badly wish we could still Talk like we were 13. i dont know who you are. I miss you.