• podperson@lemm.ee
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        10 days ago

        This is definitely what it’s supposed to do (and a great feature) but unfortunately it doesn’t work that well. Have tried this many times, especially with Amazon links, and it seems to be a bit inconsistent in its effectiveness.

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          9 days ago

          You probably also need to clear your cookies as well. I can’t really see this being done only via GET

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            9 days ago

            Yeah, I cannot imagine any reason they wouldn’t use cookies to track this. The moment you arrive via an affiliate link they’re going to know that that’s how you got to the site for that session.

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              9 days ago

              How do you think that would work? Like the site with the affiliate link should drop a third party cookie for gumroad? That’s a pretty big requirement.

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            9 days ago

            I don’t understand. Cookies and request method are two different things. You can set cookies on GET.

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          9 days ago

          If a platform gets traction and is good at removing them, then links will be more obfuscated to deal with it.

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        10 days ago

        Oh nice, that is pretty new, but will have to see if it works on those gumroad links. I have an offline script (not a browser extension, I haven’t bothered figuring out how to write those) that edits urls to remove tracking and it’s quite a pain, since there are dozens of sites and tracking schemes it has to know about. Also, rather than creating a pasteable url, a suitable browser extension should just rewrite the link automatically before navitation when you click on it.

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        10 days ago

        This is about removing tracking arguments that identify users, this is not the case here.

        The example in your link even show it’s keeping campaign tracking arguments. So I’m pretty sure it would keep the one we are talking about here.

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        9 days ago

        Also this only applies in private browsing mode, which people usually aren’t in

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      This the most tech illiterate take…

      These are called query parameters. The standard part of the HTTP spec.

      A huge part of the internet uses these simply as a way to instruct a page to display certain data or to display a particular view or layout of that data.

      Calling for an extension to get rid of these it’s like calling for an extension to get rid of headers because websites use them to pass metadata in the same manner.

      Edit: that was harsh my apologies.