Post Aa2HrSCh29asGNrwWG by colincogle@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Aa0SBxHnn3bjgGkloO by JacksonBates@aus.social
       2023-09-21T21:12:33Z
       
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       If you change the ?utm_source param of a social link to a swear word, will it show up in some marketing person's slide deck when they present their monthly update to their bosses?I don't know.But I might have a new hobby.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa0SByR3W8bVFG5fsG by pfm@edolas.world
       2023-09-21T22:54:10.557858Z
       
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       @JacksonBates There's a plugin that does exactly this. I giggle a bit each time I see utm_something=FuckOff in my address bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/whatcampaign/Written by @c0debabe
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa0SBzMq3IpC8T7owK by JacksonBates@aus.social
       2023-09-21T22:22:13Z
       
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       ?utm_source=UNIONIZE
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrOwz86FKAnUr7Q by geordie@aus.social
       2023-09-21T22:49:28Z
       
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       @JacksonBates I’ve done this and had a journalist who knew me ask if I was responsible for his stats on an article saying;Twitter: 14k referralsFacebook: 86k referralsInstagram: 8k referralsDirect / email: 1500 referralsPapal edict: 1 referral
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrPn60LvimPsTLM by geordie@aus.social
       2023-09-21T22:58:00Z
       
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       @JacksonBates also there’s a browser extension that sets the UTM referrer to “butts” dynamically for this reason and I’ve seen outraged marketing folks about that.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrQW7IxwV22wQW8 by colincogle@mastodon.social
       2023-09-22T00:22:57Z
       
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       @geordie @JacksonBates Can you refer me to that browser extension? Also, can it read profanity from a text file?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrRPPzMB7nYoaiO by geordie@aus.social
       2023-09-22T00:24:53Z
       
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       @colincogle @JacksonBates https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butter/jllpdjjoodaanpjhanfppkaemlplcmom?tracking=butts
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrSCh29asGNrwWG by colincogle@mastodon.social
       2023-09-22T00:27:12Z
       
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       @geordie @JacksonBates Hopefully it makes its way to Firefox soon.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrT73eagF5CExNI by mensrea@freeradical.zone
       2023-09-22T08:56:42Z
       
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       @colincogle looks like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/ might be up to the job. haven't played with it yet though @geordie @JacksonBates
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrTvkc7EJcPxROC by whynothugo@fosstodon.org
       2023-09-22T15:16:23Z
       
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       @mensrea @colincogle @geordie @JacksonBates I think uBlock Origin can do this itself too.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa2HrUqpBusqTQf1Lk by craftyguy@freeradical.zone
       2023-09-22T20:07:54Z
       
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       @whynothugo @mensrea @colincogle how??