Right, but you can always pass the canonical url to the redirector. That lets you avoid maintaining a whitelist/blacklist of query params. This should be trivia

Right, but you can always pass the canonical url to the redirector. That lets you avoid maintaining a whitelist/blacklist of query params. This should be trivial for Quora as most of their pages already contain the meta tag specifying the canonical url: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.quora.com/What-are-everyday-apps-that-use-cloud-computing" /> They just need to update their outbound link interceptor to take that version instead of the actual url.