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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by tedmiston on Sunday July 17, 2022 @10:35AM (#32127169)
Well I didn't say this was "something new".

Your comment is somewhat accurate, but not the whole story.

A copied Tiktok share URL looks like this:

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/<unique_id>/?k=1
When pasted into a browser though, it redirects to the normal post URL:

    https://www.tiktok.com/@<author_username>/video/<video_id>?_t=<tracking_id>&_r=1
From there the tracking ID can be easily removed (by one's self) from the query params. This is in contrast to Facebook's new approach.

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