Please accept this in the ethos of no stupid questions.

The only programming I do is to defy tracking by deleting hash lines after ? In the url.

Some popular sites I am embarrassed to admit to even viewing have found a way around this by offering me share links without the ?.

It’s Instagram I am ashamed to mention.

What do I do to get rid of the tracking now?

  • pleasehavemylyrics@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Thanks very much.

    I shall experiment with your models and hopefully learn a little bit more about this.

    Would you say that these platforms are trying to make it harder for dabblers like me to defeat some of their tracking?

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Yeah. TikTok’s generated share links don’t have separate params for the content and tracking making it difficult to get around without copying the link into the browser yourself. Because it’s mostly used through an app and not the browser, you cannot just copy the URL and you have to use the share button.