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Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by cpv on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:05AM (#21919457)
I've seen this tracking param when people shared with me some links, which they got from Fb.

There is a Firefox extension ClearURLs, which strips some tracking parameters from the url.

From what I remember, if you click in Fb on a link, it redirects first to an internal tracking url, and then to your final link. This is not limited to Fb only.

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Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by JohnFen on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:43PM (#21923323)
Yeah, this sort of thing is far from unique to Facebook, and is why it's been my practice for many years to never just click on a link. Instead, I copy it so I can strip out all of the unnecessary decorations and trackers before browsing to it.
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