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Thread #168812   Message #4077300
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
29-Oct-20 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: Tech: How Fakebook follows you around
Subject: RE: Tech: How Fakebook follows you around
I always scrape off the tracking crap on any link I post, whether from FB or the New York Times, etc..

If I read the paper directly and copy a link from the page it looks like

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/trump-erdogan-halkbank.html

but if I get the link from Twitter it looks like

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/trump-erdogan-halkbank.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The question mark and anything after it can safely be scraped off and the link posted (though test it, on occasions they try to prevent this removal of tracking data by not showing the page).