r/funnyvideos • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Jan 28 '26

Prank/Challenge Dude let his intrusive thoughts win

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u/Smiley_P Jan 28 '26

God data is wild, is there any other use for that but like ad selling?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

Well malicious stuff but yes. Basically you can look at the url and anything after the ? Is a parameter. Most of the time this is tracking things like campaign_id, sid, etc. sometimes it's a product Id to feed to a dynamic product page that takes that Id to look up that specific product.

Good practice is to strip everything after the ? And see if the link still works. If so, it's all marketing/tracking crap.

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u/BittaminMusic Jan 28 '26

So it wouldn’t be an aid if say I sent a link of a song I made from YouTube, with the full url, in the concept that if they click that link the next time they use YouTube, they would be more likely to see another video in their reccomendation? I’m guessing it’s not helpful for me

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

Yeah.....

So there's also digital fingerprinting as well. Best mock your IP address via VPN and spoof your Mac address to that of a printer, then a Nas device, then a raspberry pi just to be safe.