Protip: Delete the UTM tracking data from articles you share on #nostr. They’ll still work, and the link won’t be attributed, so your personal data isn’t shared with analytics and used for gathering information about you.
Just delete the string in the URL that begins with "?utm_source".
Merci
Every single time 🫡
99.99% of the time you can delete everything after the ?
Yup. You can paste it into a browser to be sure.
Thanks! This is great for #plebchain
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You can do the same thing when sharing tweets, if any of you still do that for whatever reason. They don’t use UTM but their own internal tracking tags start after the ? following the tweet ID.
Oh innnnnteresting.
There was no UTM?
Not on that one.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1663255699365691399?t=5A1I3O_hpnmcWBOEmaxAnA&s=19
This Twitter link doesn't have one either.
Twitter uses their own internal tracking system. You could have deleted everything from the ? on and it would still work, but Twitter wouldn’t associate it with your account ID.
Thank you for sharing this! Important but most people don’t realize that.
Also, some browser have link cleaning features for those interested:
Brave:
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/9982188779405-What-does-Copy-clean-link-mean-
Firefox can use ClearURLs extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
LibreWolf does this automatically.
Yep
Yes, please practice good utm washing hygiene with SMS as well.
Even better pro-tip: use a URL cleaner Shortcut when you use an iOS device.
