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URL Tracking & Tildes
This post brought up a thought for me - should Tildes be stripping off tracking query parameters?
This post brought up a thought for me - should Tildes be stripping off tracking query parameters?
Yeah, I think we can definitely try to do this. A lot of it might actually happen automatically if we start doing link canonicalization, as I mentioned in this topic from the other day. For example, that Washington Post article has in its HTML:
So that's already the link with the tracking query param removed. Other than that, I think we could probably go further and remove "known" tracking params like all the
utm_*ones, that's pretty straightforward. Going much beyond that might need site-specific rules though.Not all tracking parameters are UTM codes, so I guess a first step might be removing known GA tracking codes, like the one in the relevant link.
My concern around this is that it's just a bit of a muddy request. It's relatively straight forward to remove some tracking codes, but considering that tracking codes can be indistinguishable from useful query parameters, it's relatively difficult to catch all tracking parameters.
Yes, definitely. Clean up the URLs whenever it's possible to do so.
100% yes from me.
Yes pls.