Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by grishka on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:45PM
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In my experience most people do understand the basic structure of a URL even if they don't know the proper names for the parts. It doesn't take being a software developer to empirically figure out which parameters are responsible for tracking and delete them before sharing — especially if you see your own username in one of them.
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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by saaaaaam on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:29PM
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Do “regular folk” really do this though? It is a serious, non provocative question. I strip all cruft off URLs but consider myself privacy aware and technically adept. I don’t think my non-technical friends have any idea about this.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by madeofpalk on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:32AM
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Take a look at the URL you get when you try and share a tiktok video, and tell me which part to delete to remove the tracking
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
by ev1 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:38AM
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You have to visit it yourself to resolve it to a long link, then you'll get a long URL that has /@username-of-uploader/videos/[video id]?[huge amount of tracking variables]. For now, you're ok with dropping everything after the ? after you resolve out the vm.tiktok.com link shortener.