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FYI on Chrome/Brave Android, when you use 'share' button -> copy URL, it uses link rel=canonical meta tag if available (which generally doesn't have all FB tracking crap in the URL etc.)

Much better than directly copying the URL.



Or you could just trim the URL yourself.


The problem on mobile devices is that URL bar is single-line and has like 30 characters length and , while query string crap is sometimes several hundreds characters long. It's not every ergonomic.

But yeah I often copy the URL to "notepad" app before sharing and trim manually.


Even worse is chrome on android now. You have to copy the url, re-paste it and then edit. You don't have immediate access to the url you are on.


Which is a behaviour I observed in most power users, but none in the non-power user group.

I don't think most non-power user even want to try to trim that stuff, because they don't know what can be trimmed and what can't.


Yep unfortunately true. I recently saw an official document from local CDC in my home country. There were two URLs "find more info at" in the document:

file:///C:/Users/blabla/something.pdf

httpx://who.int/something?fbclid=<200-hundred-chars>


This is also why most non power users will have chrome browsers loaded with tons of add-ons and basically let every site start sending notifications...




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