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Plum @plumpan6/19/2024, 7:01 PM

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Pauline Ragny @Pauline-Ragny1/5/2024, 11:28 PM

Begging y'all to please sanitize your links.

I always try removing the shit after the ? and if it doesn't affect the destination of the link at all then I assume it's tracking bullshit and in my opinion you should too.

#tracking

Plum @plumpan6/19/2024, 6:55 PM

If it's not worth the time to clean the URL it's not worth the time to share

There's more to life than blasting your friends with links at minimum effort

Plum @plumpan6/19/2024, 7:01 PM

A computer is a tool, not an appliance

No matter how much any company wants to sell it to you like one, it's not. It's a tool. Treat it like an appliance and it will use you in whatever way companies can get away with.

You are obligated to understand how to use it. This can mean learning how to read a URL and know where the link stops and the crap begins. Or learning how ad/script blocking works in a web browser. Or knowing how to do various tasks locally on your machine instead of on some random website.

The more you know how to use a tool, the more you can do with it.

People fucking hate when I say this but whatever.

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SysL @sysl1/5/2024, 11:51 PM

Firefox has an option to copy without tracking, it's handy

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid6/19/2024, 9:32 PM

What?!

Kewlio: I'll see you guys next time @KewlioMZX1/7/2024, 5:40 AM

It's like someone read my timeline and put out a call for this. Wish more people would care to sanitise their links.

🍬@Bonbon6/19/2024, 8:52 PM

in some cases (like with tiktok links), i've noticed that it straight-up prevents you from accessing what you were linked to without making an account

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid6/19/2024, 9:32 PM

I'm not smart enough at computers to know these things. 😢

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Tempest @sutempest6/19/2024, 7:57 PM

I just use Freetube. Share button, Copy Youtube Link = Clean URL, no trackers. And a much faster and cleaner way to watch videos (for now, I know what they're experimenting on and I don't like it)

Plum @plumpan6/19/2024, 8:01 PM

As much as I love to just shit on this stuff, the obvious issue/answer is the OTHER big topic that always comes up around shitty computer use: phones

Phones make it hard to just copy a URL, or modify text. It's easy to press a share button... which of course includes all the tracking crap. The entire UI design makes doing shit like this way harder, and doing it the wrong way easier. By design. It sucks.

But phones aren't really computers, they're appliances.

Tempest @sutempest6/19/2024, 8:39 PM

The rise of the smartphone has made me appreciate how much I do not like being a phone user as opposed to a computer user because of exactly what you describe; the feeling that I'm using an appliance vs. a tool. I've grown to kind of resent the term "power user" because all a power user is, if you think about it, is someone familiar with what their tool can do. Everyone should be a power user.

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