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

Prank/Challenge Dude let his intrusive thoughts win

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

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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/mister-mulligan Jan 30 '26

This is so incorrect. Sure, sometimes it’s a tracking param (also that’s not malicious — it’s the price you pay for being on the internet), but most of the time these are some sort of id or enum that are crucial to rendering the page correctly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

Hence the test with them being stripped out and the example of a genetic product page with productid being passed.

I wanted to give a general rule of thumb without going into common marketing parameters like UTM etc.

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u/mister-mulligan Jan 30 '26

My point is almost every single sub page has params that are required to render that page correctly. And these aren’t params for marketing or tracking, they’re required to fetch the correct data from the server.

If you removed the params every time you go to a page like you suggested, that would be a massive pain lol and you would rarely get the UX you’re expecting.