Post Aw5204J3aInLsHj4cK by Blackgendermoderate@spinster.xyz
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(DIR) Post #Aw3l3zOVtda5Q5bOYy by Uglesett@snabelen.no
2025-07-12T06:41:44Z
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Public service announcement.(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )
(DIR) Post #Aw3l40CqsTqZwD9b1c by MeDueleLaTeta@owo.cafe
2025-07-12T14:02:58Z
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@Uglesett "all after ? Can be removed" fun misinfo, qnd this does not prevent people from shating tracking like its done in amazon with path params instead of queryparams xD
(DIR) Post #Aw3lVkCdyHfsPeHiUq by mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl
2025-07-12T14:21:04.507285Z
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@Uglesett you can use a fediverse client that reminds you to remove them ;)
(DIR) Post #Aw3mew4RJhpjmQOUWe by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2025-07-12T14:33:51.234122Z
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@Uglesett Or just don't use shit websites
(DIR) Post #Aw3rHFBH75dPs1768W by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2025-07-12T15:25:41.977862Z
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Or avoid all of the complexity and just use the builtin feature of the homophobia browser.
(DIR) Post #Aw43HGcAytCJldTQsS by le_proviseur@framapiaf.org
2025-07-12T17:36:03Z
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@mkljczk @Uglesett witch is ?
(DIR) Post #Aw43HHue9hZBnD7hJ2 by mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl
2025-07-12T17:40:05.528171Z
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@le_proviseur @Uglesett pl.mkljczk.pl 👈
(DIR) Post #Aw5204J3aInLsHj4cK by Blackgendermoderate@spinster.xyz
2025-07-12T14:51:03.855687Z
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@Uglesett If I do that the link won't work. Sometimes it's OK but either YouTube that seems dicey.
(DIR) Post #Aw5205na2InyVF0xpg by BionicNigga@poa.st
2025-07-13T05:00:33.621996Z
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@Blackgendermoderate @Uglesett Skill issue
(DIR) Post #Aw5244Htb1DuyV5eEq by BionicNigga@poa.st
2025-07-13T05:01:18.425789Z
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@Uglesett also &pp= on YouTube
(DIR) Post #Aw5NvFw57KAzUD5dPk by rolle@mementomori.social
2025-07-13T08:50:28Z
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@mkljczk @le_proviseur @Uglesett A soapbox fork, it seems. This would be rather easy to implement to core as well and I don't see why not.
(DIR) Post #Aw5NvHB0VJi3Kn54Jk by mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl
2025-07-13T09:06:09.169932Z
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@rolle @le_proviseur @Uglesett soapbox is sort of dead and i don’t want to have anything to do with it anymore
(DIR) Post #Aw6kfznxImlnDUwQIC by tusooa@kazv.moe
2025-07-14T00:10:05.228180Z
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@Uglesett Also, if you are on Mastodon and use the Mastodon web UI, you should check whether it allows the browser to send the referer header to remote links that users click on. Just some time ago, Eugen "recommended" instance admins to change settings to allow it "to make website owners more aware of Mastodon." (This setting can only be changed by Mastodon instance admins, not by users.) In my opinion, this usually reveals more information about the user clicking on the link than any of the tracking params present in the link. For example, the targeted website will know that a user coming from a certain IP "is most likely to" have an account on a certain instance. The privacy problem will be more serious if the user clicking the link has an account on the targeted website, because the website now knows a certain logged-in user is most likely to have an account on another website. While this threat is relatively small for huge instances, users on smaller instances will be tracked more easily.Moreover, if the user lives under the rule of a government that can possibly get them into trouble for accessing the Fediverse, the referer header will sell them out to the websites (that may well give this info to that government) whose link the user clicked from the Mastodon instance. I am not aware of any other Fediverse software that encourages sending referer header to remote links or does this by default. Pleroma sets the referrer-policy to same-origin.
(DIR) Post #Aw6knqxM5Gei5g5J3Y by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2025-07-14T00:57:19.779259Z
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@Uglesett https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck is amazing
(DIR) Post #Aw7qRiLkxiZxJripUW by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-07-14T03:36:42Z
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@Uglesett Hah! When lazy = smart: I take all that shit off just because it makes an ugly URL. Nice to know I'm doing data privacy as a byproduct 😊
(DIR) Post #Aw7qRzTTIHqqQiSjNQ by me@social.jlamothe.net
2025-07-13T17:31:11Z
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@luana @Uglesett It's also theoretically possible to put tracking data before the ?, though I haven't seen that in the wild.
(DIR) Post #Aw7qS0gGoBgQAhSSxs by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-14T07:16:21Z
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@me @Uglesett @luana Some sites like fb, reddit and stackoverflow produce special share links that aren't just a link to the article, the link is unique to the person sharing it.When I get a link like that, I'll look up the canonical URL before sharing it further. It's not only a privacy issue, it's a special case of the URL shortener issue and messes up our collective internet heritage, as it is very unlikely that URL will be resolvable ten years from now, and the internet archives and national libraries out there won't know that personalized URL.
(DIR) Post #Aw7qSXUMpSlnvL8vUe by mitch@hoagie.cloud
2025-07-14T12:56:26Z
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@Uglesett For the Androids amongst us:https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.untracker/https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
(DIR) Post #Aw7qSZAEbHr17TjsOG by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-14T12:58:41Z
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@mitch oooh, neat@Uglesett
(DIR) Post #Aw7qSblAwualAd2PFQ by sorcery@tuiter.rocks
2025-07-14T12:11:00Z
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@Uglesett Okhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
(DIR) Post #Aw7qScTUIA2NO3lnJg by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-14T12:57:00Z
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@sorcery Yeah, the last sentence is true except in the many cases when it's not. 😅But everything before that is solid advice.@Uglesett
(DIR) Post #Aw7riaCGd0XauUtIbQ by tpaau17db@mastodon.social
2025-07-14T13:07:13Z
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@Uglesett Yup, knew this for a long time. This is particularly obvious with Facebook, where the majority of the URL is just variables.