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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
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).