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You can read some of the issues people have had with this by reading up on the http referer header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer https://en.wikipe
by cortesoft 5mo ago
You can read some of the issues people have had with this by reading up on the http referer header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
There are a lot of reasons I might not want a site to know where I came from to get to their site. It is basically sharing your browsing history with the site you are visiting.
Because of this, there have been a lot of updates to the http referer header, with restrictions on when it is sent, and an ability to opt out of the feature entirely.
Adding a url parameter with the same information bypasses any of these existing rules and ability to opt out. They should just use the standard.
- odie5533 5mo agoIf I send out an email campaign, I can't use custom http headers to know that a user arrived from the newsletter.
- grg0 5mo agoDo you really need to? Basic statistics will tell you if the email campaign had any significant effect on site visits.
- maccard 5mo agoIf I release a video and send an email newsletter at the same time, which one caused the traffic increase? Should I invest in making more videos of sending more emails?
- hananova 5mo agoIf you insist on knowing, include a different url in both that goes to the same place and use your damn server logs. You don’t need google analytics and whatever.
- vel0city 5mo agoIsn't putting in a different query string "including a different url that goes to the same place"? Isn't this functionally the exact same?
- zaphar 5mo agopresumably you control the urls you are sending in the email. As a result if you want to use query strings that's fine. The issue only arises when you use query strings to implement tracking on someone else's site instead.
- zahlman 5mo agoAs your reader, I might not actually want you to know.
- abigail95 5mo agouse a unique url for each email
- cortesoft 5mo agoIf you are sending out an email, you can use whatever url form you like? This is talking about links to third party sites, not your own.