Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by jwilk on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:48AM (#14330307)

Please remove "?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" from the URL.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by eddyg on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:12AM (#14330368)

I hate dinglequeries too.

I wish more people would learn what can and can't be removed from a URL before sharing it. It's not that difficult, and it's easy to test that the "minified" version still works.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by nabaraz on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:26AM (#14330413)

Just curious, why do you care so much about them? They are just data for analytics. Everyone is probably just clicking on them not typing manually.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by jmkni on Saturday May 13, 2017 @02:35PM (#14332310)

On sites like Reddit (and maybe HN), links with those extra parameters aren't flagged as a duplicate, and end up getting posted multiple times with multiple comment threads.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by Sylos on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:47AM (#14330686)

Because they are data for analytics. Not everyone is a fan of that, especially when the URL points to the servers of a company with such a terrible privacy policy.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by samtoday on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:20AM (#14330808)

Surely if you dislike analytics, keeping these bogus utm parameters is "good"? They are misleading the webmaster in some form.

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