Same with formatting a phone number

Firefox loves me...

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There are still lots of tracking parameters it doesn't remove. It does not bypass redirects like doubleclick.net/redirect?url=..., either.

I'd prefer if it worked with personal and community managed filters, like every good adblocker does now.

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- It'll warn you before you go to shit tracking redirectors though.
  
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Common Firefox W

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there's even an extension to do that automatically, clearurls if i recall correctly

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I didn't know about that! I always use Ctrl+C of course. I'll look out for this next time

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I guess I really love everyone because I've just always done that

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Me too, but just to screw over Amazon's social graph making.

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- Sometimes I throw garbage in there just got fun ☺️
  
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- It's less love and more spite.
  
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Same

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Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you'd like).

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you're on lemmy.world, it's here: https://lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you're not, it's available on the !tails@lemmon.website community.

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even on the federated web, you can't escape the screenshots

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- Let's just be thankful they actually took a screenshot and didn't take a picture of the screen with their phone.
  
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- The referent of a link can be changed or deleted. A screenshot cannot.
  
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…seems a bit crazy. …

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously …

Tee-hee :) Point taken though!

No way to cross post is there?

Also would be neat to have a blended account feature - infosec.exchange is defederated from sh.itjust.works even though we’re OK I swear. Might be time to raise that discussion again.

Anyway only seeing this because of the repost. And for the visually paired (easy of seeing?) (not blind?), screenshots of text can sometimes have a je ne sais quoi. A bit of text fitting just so in the right font, maybe a light background breaking the monotony of one’s dark mode…

Screenshots, surprisingly resilient in $current_year. One day Lemmy could autotranscribe screenshots and include original post date, platform, author… maybe how deep fried it was too.

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- Yeah, cross-posts would be a new post from me, rather than the original from e.g. George Takei, which isn't ideal.
  
  I hadn't really thought about defederation between servers running both Mastodon and Lemmy. I guess that post wouldn't show up on sh.itjust.works (I'll have a look if anyone subscribes from there)
  
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- Honestly I feel like a screenshot of a toot is better than just seeing a Lemmy-formated toot.
  
  Maybe a cross-post feature which generates what the screenshot effectively shows but formatted in html to match mastodon formatting with functioning links that's hosted on the instance the Lemmy community is in to avoid federation issues?
  
  Edit to add: on the other hand I regularly forward the screenshots to friends on other platforms, so I'd either screenshot the thing created to stop screenshots or need a share/download button to create a image because I know my friends ain't interested in clicking a wierd fediverse link to view a 2 sentence joke they may or may not find funny
  
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Neither of those links load in Voyager, so I think a screenshot is great.

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- What's happened for you there isn't a problem for screenshots to really fix - it's whatever frontend you're using not giving lemmy's backend enough time to fetch a remote community. This happens loads - I even made a little video about it the other day: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13703060
  
  When you clicked on !tails@lemmon.website, it did actually go through to dbzer0, and Voyager has no trouble with the community once it's though. A little ironically perhaps, but here's a hastily combined screenshot showing it at dbzer0 and on Voyager:
  
  edit: and the link to the post of course: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13850191
  
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After clicking thru to the original link and checking out the community, I found the community description pretty ironic to this post:

This community is experimental. It follows people on Mastodon (for now, lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social) and publishes their posts here, keeping them as the author.

This has several advantages over someone else screenshotting their posts and sharing them lemmy, including efficiency, accessibility, searchability and credit, as well as the fact that if you - as a lemmy user - comment on a post, it will go to the original author.

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- Sorry, maybe I'm being a bit dense, but I don't really understand what you mean. 'This post' as in the post on microblogmemes?
  
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?utm_source=my-crush

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and checks it still works

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I actually remove stuff like the "feature=sharing" nonsense from the end of youtube memes I share pretty regularly

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And send bank account and phone numbers in a separate message for easy copying

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Full format addresses so they automatically turn into links

No: 123 Main St Yes: 123 Main St, Burgerville, TN 70302

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Some messengers like Telegram allow you to copy preformatted blocks in one click, so you can just write "here's the number number" and it will still be easy to copy

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Why would you even be sending them together?

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- Me and the homies compare paystubs and direct deposits to make sure we aren't victims of wage theft 💪
  
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- I assumed it was something like here's *'s number: 1245689 in one message making it hard just to copy the phone number on some mobile messengers.
  
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Firefox: Rt-click - "Copy without Site Tracking"

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Firefox best browser

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Oh no I think I'm sending some people the wrong kind of message... I didn't mean to...

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it's ok. i figured we could never be more than friends

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I guess I love more people than I care to acknowledge

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I change it by adding profanities

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Will the links still work? This gives me ideas

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- They're just for marketing stats, to track where people are visiting from. I've had to add them in the past (for work) to differentiate marketing campaigns, links in emails vs SMS, etc
  
  Look up "UTM parameters" for a full breakdown of how these are used.
  
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- Yep, they'll work.
  
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jeff, you are mixing love with OCD... again

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I feel so seen ❤️

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If you set URLCheck as a default browser and you can automate the process of making people think you love them

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Even better https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

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- While fdroid is great for discovery or if you're running without Play Services, I'm using the Play Store anyway so I'll use that if they're on there or if not then Obtanium to get them from the source repo.
  
  Isn't there some weirdness with signing apps on fdroid? A bit beyond my security knowledge when I last saw it discussed.
  
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- Also https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.untracker/
  
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On iOS, I use the Clean URLs iOS shortcut to cleanup links & remove tracking parameters.

Credit: mastodon.social/@DavidBlue

I want to create a version that adds a check for a YouTube link and creates a Piped.video link too - save me a few seconds each time.

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Nice to see an app for it.

Android 13 and above comes with a clipboard editor which is super handy. I just edit all my links in that.

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- Oh nice, I had no idea that's what that did, cheers!
  
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see a few that just paste the google news links. we can never be friends

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Unless of course you want them to look at something specific that the query string automatically selects for them. It'd be pretty confusing in that case if you removed the query string and they're just looking at thousands of entries in a table or something.

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my big sister does this. i love her so much

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This is my love language

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Does stack exchange have a mastodon instance?

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I don't get it

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