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Yes but that's irrelevant, I used a real URL that you will receive in your texts. It's real life, it happens and it sucks. Let's not normalize it.
by bandergirl 3y ago
Yes but that's irrelevant, I used a real URL that you will receive in your texts. It's real life, it happens and it sucks. Let's not normalize it.
- sieabahlpark 3y ago[dead]
- traceroute66 3y agoNo. It's not irrelevant. As you have been told apple.com/iphone = www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3HZ8B5 The rest of what you posted on the Amazon link is tracking bullshit. Now, THAT is irrelevant !
- hot_gril 3y agoUsers aren't expected to manipulate URLs manually. If your URLs have extra stuff, that's what people are going to copy/paste into messages. Amazon product URLs are looong, but maybe people don't share them enough for Amazon to care. YouTube and Twitter put more effort into making them short.
- eternityforest 3y agoI wonder if this is something Unicode could address. You could have something like quote marks that mean "Anything between these is data that shouldn't be seen in digital media but should be printed" So you could have urls like: example.com?<a single icon>&productname=somethinghumanreadable
- hot_gril 3y agoThe browser would also have to understand not to copy that part by default. But HTTP disallows unicode chars in URLs. There could instead be some "sharable URL" web API, but it seems like a small enough problem that sites are content just providing a custom share button if needed.