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Thanks to @lawlessfor the explanation and motivation.

That's something I planned to focus on, and thanks to his post (quote/link below), I had a couple hours to kill and decided to do it.

“UTM” stands for “Urchin tracking module.” Which to give you some more background, Urchin Software Corporation was acquired by Google in 2005, and this is basically what we now know as Google Analytics.

In a nutshell, UTM codes are bits of text you can add to a link that tell an Analytics account more information about each link. Many marketers rely on these UTMs to identify who they are driving for the campaigns they work on.

https://poal.co/s/IdeasForPoal/536652

If you know some other common query parameters/strings used for tracking, let me know in the comments and I'll consider adding them to the black list.

You should try to use archived links too. Mirrors prevent posts with controversial topics from becoming obsolete (due to the rampant kike censorship that is killing online's freedom of speech).

Thanks to @lawless for the explanation and motivation. That's something I planned to focus on, and thanks to his post (quote/link below), I had a couple hours to kill and decided to do it. > “UTM” stands for “Urchin tracking module.” Which to give you some more background, Urchin Software Corporation was acquired by Google in 2005, and this is basically what we now know as Google Analytics. > In a nutshell, UTM codes are bits of text you can add to a link that tell an Analytics account more information about each link. Many marketers rely on these UTMs to identify who they are driving for the campaigns they work on. > https://poal.co/s/IdeasForPoal/536652 If you know some other common query parameters/strings used for tracking, let me know in the comments and I'll consider adding them to the black list. You should try to use archived links too. Mirrors prevent posts with controversial topics from becoming obsolete (due to the rampant kike censorship that is killing online's freedom of speech).

(post is archived)

[–] 10 pts 2y

LMAO, I just thought about all the marketers on here freaking out how they are going to track their pushes.

well done mang

[–] 8 pts 2y

Love all the work you're doing to prevent tracking and other ((( features ))) of the modern web2.0 gaynet.

Keep up the great work. And thanks @lawlessfor taking the time to bring this to aou's attention.

[–] 4 pts 2y

I appreciate that - now I guarantee you will see an influx of shortened links here because they will need something in the immediate to stop gap this hit. I'll think of some other ways to keep fucking with these fools.

[–] 2 pts 2y

Link shorteners are considered as spam and get banned when they are reported.

[–] 6 pts 2y

That's sexy. You are sexy. Poal is sexy.

[–] 6 pts 2y

vid8 is gonna be sexy too, soon™ ;)

[–] 4 pts 2y

Yeah you keep saying, I'm just sitting here with my sexy patience.

[–] 6 pts 2y

Must be super sexy by now.

[–] 0 pt 2y

Keep it in the bedroom

[–] [deleted] 6 pts 2y

Nice. Thanks for actively creating and maintaining Poal. Does this have anything to do with the perniciously ubiquitous "google_ad_id" which is a unique identifier for each and every user of a google product?

[–] 3 pts 2y

The google_ad_id has nothing to do with links.

It's specific to Android apps.

[–] 5 pts 2y

It's way more fun to replace UTM codes with ramdom insults than to remove them.

[–] 6 pts 2y

lol I could get Pauline to keep the keys and replace the values with poal's captcha list.

[–] 2 pts 2y

I fastidiously scrub my links, but from now on I think I'm going to do this instead!

[–] [deleted] 0 pt 2y

ELi5

[–] 1 pt 2y

Poal will keep the bad man from touching your link.

[–] 1 pt 2y

They get a summary which campaign code got how many clicks to optimize their clickbait.

If you mess with the code they get clicks for camaigns that they didn't create in their reports.

[–] [deleted] 0 pt 2y

How would one go about doing this?

For science.

[–] 4 pts 2y

Excellent feature. Thank you.

[–] 4 pts 2y

Google AMP links could probably be filtered in the same way. "Accelerated Mobile Pages", as far as I understand it its a copy of the pages google keeps on their servers instead of linking people to the real page.

[–] 3 pts 2y

Does this include AMP links?

[–] 4 pts 2y

Unfortunately amp links are more complicated. So it’s up to users to get the sources and share them.

[–] 3 pts 2y

Thanks for this, I,ll likely continue my habit of trimming urls and archiving things, but this is a truly important feature especially for newcomers who may be unaware

[–] 6 pts 2y

You can still trim links, even though it is automatically done now.

Archiving is coming back soon.

[–] 2 pts 2y

Thanks for all the hard work

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