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I habitually remove tracking and other non-essential cruft from shared URLs, for readability and for politeness to my correspondents. I don't think it's polite
by a3n 10y ago
I habitually remove tracking and other non-essential cruft from shared URLs, for readability and for politeness to my correspondents. I don't think it's polite to associate their IP with my tracked activity.
- paulryanrogers 10y agoDo you have any tools to automate that process?
- a3n 10y agoNot really. I use the Uppity extension in Firefox. So if Uppity shows me: http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/donald-trump-wall-street-elite/?xid=gn_editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/donald-trump-wall-street-elite/ http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/ http://fortune.com/2017/05/ http://fortune.com/2017/ http://fortune.com/ http://www.fortune.com/ Then I pick select the second one from the top, let it load to be sure I got a usable URL, then use that in my email. This is probably ideal, since anything more automated would probably get it wrong often enough that I'd go back to doing just this. Firefox: Uppity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uppity/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uppity/ Firefox: Navigate Up WE https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/navigate-up-we/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/navigate-up-w... Chrome: Up https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/up/iohgglcbddjknnemakghbjadinmopafl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/up/iohgglcbddjknne... (And what is up with those chrome store URLs?)