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FYI on Chrome/Brave Android, when you use 'share' button -> copy URL, it uses link rel=canonical meta tag if available (which generally doesn't have all FB trac
by jakub_g 7y ago
FYI on Chrome/Brave Android, when you use 'share' button -> copy URL, it uses link rel=canonical meta tag if available (which generally doesn't have all FB tracking crap in the URL etc.)
Much better than directly copying the URL.
- hoseja 7y agoOr you could just trim the URL yourself.
- jakub_g 7y agoThe problem on mobile devices is that URL bar is single-line and has like 30 characters length and , while query string crap is sometimes several hundreds characters long. It's not every ergonomic. But yeah I often copy the URL to "notepad" app before sharing and trim manually.
- psalminen 7y agoEven worse is chrome on android now. You have to copy the url, re-paste it and then edit. You don't have immediate access to the url you are on.
- innocenat 7y agoWhich is a behaviour I observed in most power users, but none in the non-power user group. I don't think most non-power user even want to try to trim that stuff, because they don't know what can be trimmed and what can't.
- jakub_g 7y agoYep unfortunately true. I recently saw an official document from local CDC in my home country. There were two URLs "find more info at" in the document: file:///C:/Users/blabla/something.pdf httpx://who.int/something?fbclid=<200-hundred-chars>
- taeric 7y agoThis is also why most non power users will have chrome browsers loaded with tons of add-ons and basically let every site start sending notifications...