c/tails · by codinghorror@infosec.exchange · 2y

True Love [codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

(Originally published on infosec.exchange: 2024-02-05)

19 points · 36 comments · view on lemmy.world

36 Comments

secretgeek@mastodon.cloud · 4 pts · 2y

best is to customise it with weird random stuff that put them on a watchlist

researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 pts · 2y

I've thought about making a personal browser extension that turns all querystring text to
"?source=your_mom"

Edit: it's a bookmarklet 🙃

gpakosz@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 pts · 2y

I never understood why site authors don’t do it on page load after having run their analytics solution of choice. It’s just basic respect to site readers 🤷‍♂️

yannick@social.lol · 1 pts · 2y

wished my browser loved me

owzim@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

which does it for you

Lee_Holmes@infosec.exchange · 1 pts · 2y

Amazon etc. have started to become smarter by offering a "share" icon that strips all of that junk. I don't know why other platforms (like search engines) don't.

Oh, and CMS platforms. You should see how many blogs are out there with their links still enshrined in phishing protection URLs because they copied them out of their email.

da_667@infosec.exchange · 1 pts · 2y

nah. Friends don't let friends give more data to advertisers.

gryzor@androiddev.social · 1 pts · 2y

like this? 😘

abuseofnotation@mathstodon.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

If you really wanna know
if he loves you so
It's in his links (that's where it is!)

doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

Ah yeah, that's real love!

AllRoads1337toPWN@infosec.exchange · 1 pts · 2y

When someone pretends to love you, they send affiliate links.

bownie@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

unacknowledged truth

crymond@procial.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Oh, and what does it mean when someone adds something to the query string?

trkzn@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

I do it all the time for *everyone* because I love you all

erikcats@warhammer.social · 1 pts · 2y

I love everyone by that standard

deeje@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

truth!

diffiehellmanstan@infosec.exchange · 1 pts · 2y

I do this when copying Reddit links to share with friends, as I assume that the "deeplink" that shows up in the query is a tracker of some sort. Plus, it just looks nicer.

RuStelz@norden.social · 1 pts · 2y

simply true

niclas@angrytoday.com · 1 pts · 2y

I must be one of the most loving person on the planet.....OR, I kust the most hateful one when it comes to the surveillance state we live in.

webreflection@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

that assumes that the average Web surfer (or any Web targeting tech, really) has any clue about this ... I keep doing that but my less tech-oriented circles that share links all over the place have no idea 😢

I keep telling them but they see just numbers here and there and it's a dead-end conversation.

asteriskeverything@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks I am embarrassed I really didn't know about this. I'm exclusively on mobile I haven't had a computer for years now. So I think that crap is even more prevalent thanks to people like me, cuz it's a pain to edit links on mobile so why bother especially if you don't know why?

I did not expect that when I grew old and would rant about how much better things were back in my day, it would be about the fucking internet lmao

fractals@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

I clearly love too many people

taketwo@social.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Firefox loves its users. They build a function that does this.
We just need more parameters added to this function, so they get removed.

mjc@zirk.us · 1 pts · 2y

lmgtfy links are a valid love language.

meejah@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

Firefox does this now :)
("Copy without site tracking")

bettybarcode@urbanists.social · 1 pts · 2y

Hate that stuff. Is there a browser extension or something that blocks it?

miclgael@mastodon.au · 1 pts · 2y