I often remove such appendages because I prefer clean, compact, semantic URLs that narrowly reflect my specific intent when sharing an article: "this article is

I often remove such appendages because I prefer clean, compact, semantic URLs that narrowly reflect my specific intent when sharing an article: "this article is good". I don't want any other website/software agendas overlaid into my communication in ways that (1) leak info about what tools I'm using, even seemingly-innocuous info; (2) dilute any salient aspects of the URL by layering on excess (or even worse opaque) tracking info. I've deleted that damn "?s=21" from the end of Twitter URLs hundreds of times.