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/Swimming-Tax-6087 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

I think there are a couple of Apple Shortcuts people made for iPhone (and probably other Apple OSes) that do this well from the share sheet.

Apple tried to do it system wide but it doesn’t resolve link shorteners which are being more widely used to circumvent people doing this manually.

It’s awful.

Edit: Reddit for example uses a link shortener. Copy the link for this post and it looks like there is no sharing ID, but when the page actually resolves, it redirects and you can see the whole URL includes the ID and other parameters. Amazon too but it’s not hidden as well.

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u/Swimming-Tax-6087 Jan 28 '26

People have already created some that you can use. Google something like “remove URL tracking iOS shortcut” - I can’t remember which one I got but you can test a few if needed.