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Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much a major social media sites do this. Usually the tracking ID follows the ? in the url so it’s easy to remove. But yeah avoiding those places is probably more ideal.
I only noticed this shit recently man after the Israel/Twitter stuff. I always run a link through claude now to clean it first before posting anywhere. Sounds paranoid but fuck it makes me feel much more comfortable about it.
Does Lemmy track? I'm new here
As far as I know, no. The platform is open source so anyone should be able to check. Plus each instance is run by different people since anyone could spin one up. Since there’s no advertising $$ as this isn’t corporate owned there’s not really a reason to track users either.
Sharing from the app will create a different URL, where you can't just snip off the end to clean it up. You have to resolve it first
Isn't that just from sharing? I usually just copy the URL and send that, not through any plugin or sharing add-on on the site.
Reddit doesn't have one any more, they do this in the backend to stop getting hatred
I mean, they still have UTM tracking in their URLs like:
/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buttonBut you’re right I don’t see a random user agent string in there
I guess this is from the browser, I told about the app