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Are UTM tracking parameters blocked by Hacker News?
- defgsus 6y agoSorry for the stupid link, i just wanted to test if HN is actually filtering out those utm parameters because they almost completely disappeared in May 2018.
- defgsus 6y agoSo actually, yes they got removed! I tried those typical: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed-Blabla
- ColinWright 6y agoPersonally, I remove them "by hand" whenever I submit a link to any site, or otherwise share them anywhere. I know I'm not the only one.
- defgsus 6y agoThat is certainly good practice as you otherwise might disturb the statistics ;-) Imagine sharing a link unaltered from some android app and now company X thinks the android users are actually growing. If i think about it, actually, we should add randomly swizzled utm params to all posted links ;)
- marssaxman 6y agoIf you are concerned about these parameters you might try the ClearURLs extension, which automatically removes them.
- defgsus 6y agoThank you. Actually i am not so concerned, for myself at least, i was just curious because there is irregularity in the data as one might say: https://defgsus.github.io/blog/2021/03/02/url-stats.html#query-parameters https://defgsus.github.io/blog/2021/03/02/url-stats.html#que...