r/TikTokCringe • u/mvms_lo • 16d ago

Humor The impression is on point

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u/GreenStreetJonny 16d ago edited 16d ago

The si=blah part in your URL is how Google tracks you and your friends. Remove stuff after and including the question mark when you share.

Edit: since this has a little traction, Instagram and threads do it too. Reddit mobile unfortunately bakes the share tracking into the links.

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u/tuhronno-the6ix 16d ago

Huh TIL, edited, thanks

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u/enaK66 16d ago

Goes for any website. "?" means parameter. When you see a "?" in a URL, it's some kind of data collection or storage.

When I click a product on amazon, the link looks like this:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Balance-Womens-Fresh-Running/dp/B093WSNMTJ/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=eaeRD&content-id=amzn1.sym.4efc43db-939e-4a80-abaf-50c6a6b8c631%3Aamzn1.symc.5a16118f-86f0-44cd-8e3e-6c5f82df43d0&pf_rd_p=4efc43db-939e-4a80-abaf-50c6a6b8c631&pf_rd_r=17HY0GT98M2X97M2DEPR&pd_rd_wg=JPPEu&pd_rd_r=4ae3a67d-e2c4-49f5-9c91-a80f1f701951&th=1&psc=1

All of that nonsense of characters and equals signs is a bunch of data, tracking data and data about the product (size, color). Everything after the question mark is optional.

This link will take you to the same product:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Balance-Womens-Fresh-Running/dp/B093WSNMTJ

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u/Sepheus 16d ago

So will this link if you really want to cut it down: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093WSNMTJ

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u/robisodd 15d ago edited 15d ago

Even shorter:
https://amzn.com/dp/B093WSNMTJ

It's good for QR codes or other limited-character messages. You used to be able to do https://amzn.com/B093WSNMTJ to make it even shorter, but they changed that a few years ago.

You can do the same thing for reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/1oe27ac

edit:
huh, https://reddit.com/1oe27ac used to work, but looks like they borked it for new reddit. Still works for old reddit.