Note that there are many other implementations of this type of click tracking, so it wouldn't be possible to strip all of these tracking strings. For example Re

Note that there are many other implementations of this type of click tracking, so it wouldn't be possible to strip all of these tracking strings. For example ReadWriteWeb also does this for posts on HN. Just take a look at this recent submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643515 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643515 The link contains this URL fragment: #.TfMwNJgETxs;hackernews I think it's bad design to not assume that people can and will always share URLs with others. Putting tracking strings in URLs ignores this fact. I often see Urchin URL parameters even on submissions on Hacker News. Most of the time they say utm_source=feedburner, which means that they were taken from an RSS reader. Just think about how easily such a submission reaching the top of Hacker News would distort the statistics. Doesn't this make the the statistics almost worthless? Or at least harder to interpret? I think so.