There are many URLs that require parameters to load a resource (and aren’t necessarily tracking anything). With YouTube’s non-shortened links (for example), the video ID is after the ?, but is usually (but not always) immediately after.
This: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Can be shortened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
But no shorter.
(actually, you can remove the www. but that’s not relevant for illustrating my point)
LOL: thank you Voyager or Lemmy.world for stripping it even from my inline code.
So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
Typically anything after the “?”. That’s where the parameters live. There are always exceptions.
There are many URLs that require parameters to load a resource (and aren’t necessarily tracking anything). With YouTube’s non-shortened links (for example), the video ID is after the
?, but is usually (but not always) immediately after.This:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQCan be shortened to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQBut no shorter.
(actually, you can remove the
www.but that’s not relevant for illustrating my point)LOL: thank you Voyager or Lemmy.world for stripping it even from my inline code.
Here’s what I was trying to post:
Nice try.
I mean that’s part of the fun of surfing the web, you get to play a fun puzzle game of “How to Lobotomize a URL”
Happy cake day
There should be an extension that does this
uBlock Origin with the appropriate filter list will do it for you, like this one: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/