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Re:Chrome browser will detect what URL you copied by MildlySerious on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:09AM (#17037305)
I can't confirm this. Same Chrome version. Copying from this text as well as copying from the address bar after visiting the site, I get exactly the part I copied.
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Re:Chrome browser will detect what URL you copied by onion2k on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:28AM (#17037392)
It does work for me.

Load https://www.w3schools.com/?utm_source=facebook in a new tab.

Highlight "https://www.w3schools.com" in the URL in the address bar.

Copy.

Paste in to Notepad and get "https://www.w3schools.com/?utm_source=facebook".

However, it's any GET vars that seem to be copied. Doing the same thing on https://www.w3schools.com/?abcdef=facebook has the same effect. It only seems to happen on W3Schools too. I suspect it's the site trying to be do something rather than anything nefarious by Chrome.

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Re:Chrome browser will detect what URL you copied by detaro on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:01AM (#17037538)
Same. copy-and-paste works as expected.
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Re:Chrome browser will detect what URL you copied by gb00splusx on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:14AM (#17037338)
Here the same.
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