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.
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.
Here’s what I was trying to post:
Nice try.