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Should analytics tagging really be used when submitting urls to hn? ?utm_source=ycombinator
by jontro 10y ago
Should analytics tagging really be used when submitting urls to hn?
?utm_source=ycombinator
- niftich 10y agoI have no problem with this. At least this style of analytics makes it clear to both the reader of the URL and a casual observer that their visit is going to be catalogued as such, and for a careful clicker, easy to bypass. I find this much more palatable than, say, Medium's pseudorandom tracking hash fragments that are spawned on each link share (harder to grok and recognize, but easy to bypass), or indecipherable URLs where it's impossible to tell where the substantive, deterministic portion ends and the tracking garbage begins.