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The site producthunt appends it to all its outgoing links. To let the websites know source of the traffic.
by sidcool 9y ago
The site producthunt appends it to all its outgoing links. To let the websites know source of the traffic.
- LambdaComplex 9y agoThat's already built into HTTP with the Referer header. So what's the point?
- trvrprkr 9y agoSometimes links will go through a number of other things (url shortener, analytics, so on) before hitting the final URL.
- PaulStatezny 9y agoI think the point was that all these clicks from HN are probably misleading the analytics provider. (Assuming the site is integrated with an analytics provider that uses that query parameter to determine the referrer.)
- sidcool 9y agoThat is correct. This was the intention.
- ReverseCold 9y agoSome people might bookmark the link, copy it, view it later, share it, etc. It's helpful to know that the original source of the link is producthunt (in this example).