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Medium appears to generate and append a unique tracking code onto each page load, you'll notice only one of those submitters was aware of it and stripped it off

• DrScump 11y ago
  They add a phony fragment identifier to evade dupe checks -- a pretty pathetic way to augment traffic, unless there's a legit purpose for doing this that I'm not seeing (in all cases, there is no genuine corresponding fragment ID anywhere in the page). signalvnoise and buzzfeed also do this.