Advice for people new to Mastodon:
If you are going to post a link to an article - please take the time to remove the tracking from the link before posting it.
(In other words, find the ? in the link and delete it and everything after it. THEN post the link.)
It only takes a second or to to do, and it prevents websites from tracking people across the internet.
@SpaceCadet Deleting everything in a URL after the question mark certainly works.
When a friend sends me a URL that includes a question mark and then some tracking goop, I like to replace the tracking text with something more fun before I visit the website. Let the person doing the tracking wonder why the tracking info says that the link came from the PlatypusPrincipality campaign or some such.
I wonder if anybody else does this.
@SpaceCadet
Ahem
Lucky the Fediverse is big enough for the two of us
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