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@White_Rabbit just a tip. Always remove the tracking parameters of the URLs so they can't add the sources of sharings in their analytics.
Ex.:
From https://www.dailymailxx.co.uk/news/article-15567343/ca...
To
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15567343/cana...
Ex.:
From https://www.dailymailxx.co.uk/news/article-15567343/ca...
To
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15567343/cana...
https://beta.nicecrew.digital already has that on the frontend. Plus, tracking links ?s\i=xxxx are already removed via regex by our backend. (had to edit because the backend removed it lol)
That works for Youtube links but what about others?
utm_* for instance is always Google Campaign Manager, and there are several others (apparently here it's ns_mchannel, ns_campaign, and ito)
utm_* for instance is always Google Campaign Manager, and there are several others (apparently here it's ns_mchannel, ns_campaign, and ito)
If you can provide examples, I can add them to regex.
I'm not sure regexes are the best way to tackle this, but let me look into what this bot actually does
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@Verfassungsschmutz @matty @White_Rabbit @wizardmanperson As matty said earlier, the front end poast is going to be using full time when I get a chance to swap our hardware out from the loaner to the new hardware from last lol summer I guess -- we are no longer offering the soapbox front end as the default. The new front end strips them all
Yeah, makes sense to catch it right at the input layer.
I guess having a bot do this could still be useful until the new UI is rolled out, and perhaps for posts federated from other instances that don't have this feature yet.
But whatever, I really don't HAVE to do this and it honestly doesn't seem to happen all that much anyways to be a major concern. And if it does, most browsers (at least Brave and Firefox) have a "Copy clean link" function built in nowadays.
Thanks for the update though, good to see you guys already have a handle on this. ๐ป
I guess having a bot do this could still be useful until the new UI is rolled out, and perhaps for posts federated from other instances that don't have this feature yet.
But whatever, I really don't HAVE to do this and it honestly doesn't seem to happen all that much anyways to be a major concern. And if it does, most browsers (at least Brave and Firefox) have a "Copy clean link" function built in nowadays.
Thanks for the update though, good to see you guys already have a handle on this. ๐ป