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At the risk of falling afoul of the site guidelines, can I complain about an uncommon annoyance? Apparently this blog pulls a Facebook, or more precisely a fbcl
by mananaysiempre 3y ago
At the risk of falling afoul of the site guidelines, can I complain about an uncommon annoyance? Apparently this blog pulls a Facebook, or more precisely a fbclid, and adds ref=blog.phnx.im as a query parameter to every link. This seems less than fitting for a post on a privacy technology, and actually breaks the link to the IETF BoF minutes[1].
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/minutes-101-mls-00 https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/minutes-1...
- eps 3y agoOh, the irony.
- wkrp 3y agoThat's something ghost.org does by default. I unknowingly ran into the same issue for my blog.
- dalanmiller 3y agoHow does one turn this off?
- cityroler 3y agoghost Settings > Analytics > Outbound link tagging
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- raphaelrobert 3y agoThank you for bringing this up! It appears ghost has this turned on by default, and I turned it off now. Sorry for any inconvenience. For context, we had an internal debate whether we should host the blog ourselves, but ultimately decided to use ghost. It ticked a few boxes, being open-source and run by a non-profit. The fact that it would do outbound link tagging by default really comes as a surprise, so thanks again for bringing it up.