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That link has your si in it. Your si is a tracking code Google uses to determine who clicked on links you shared. They want to know who your friends are for their social data models.

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I had to explain this similar concept to a co-worker who always puts his tracking info in his parts orders. He didn’t understand until I started asking him about firearms parts he had been browsing on his own Amazon account.

His links are now sufficiently sanitized.

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Hold on… how were you able to find out about his amazon browsing habits from a tracking code? I thought end-users wouldn’t have that information but only amazon themselves (+ their 391712 friends).

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Additional recommendation: use https://linkcleaner.app or Léon URL Cleaner (Android) to automatically remove those pesky tracking parameters.

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Firefox has a “copy link without tracking information”, in the right click menu btw

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