Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them
by kevin_b_er on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:02PM
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Will this mean the canonical links will start to disappear from pages? I doubt amazon, for one, will want to lose their tracking markers from pressing share.
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Re:Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them
by kodablah on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:13PM
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I hope so. I don't appreciate that they were floated for SEO and are now used for an alternative purpose. They don't even mention it on the page I linked.
What I wonder is if the other forms of letting Google know the SEO-canonical URLs are also applied to Share-Link-canonical URLs (e.g. in the sitemap). I suspect not based on the sibling poster's source link. So the right answer seems to be not to use the head element if you don't want Google taking it off when sharing. All web devs know how to use JS to perform non-history-changing URL changes if we really wanted to cull the query parameters. We don't need their help.