Surfing Tip of the Day
Here's your Internet tip for the day. When you copy and post a URL (web address) from a friend's Facebook feed to your own feed, you'll notice you get a web address like this:
https://medium.com/@vickyalvearshecte...
Now notice about halfway through the post, we have a string of letters "?fbclid". In a URL, anything that comes after a question mark isn't necessary for the URL to work. Everything that comes after the question mark is tracking information that allows FB--and other web sites--to track where you got the story from, who clicked on it from FB, and more, more, more. If you want to make it harder for FB to follow you around on-line, delete everything that comes after a question mark in any URL you post.
From the above example, you would post only this: https://medium.com/@vickyalvearshecte... . The URL will work, and it messes up FB's tracking.
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https://medium.com/@vickyalvearshecte...
Now notice about halfway through the post, we have a string of letters "?fbclid". In a URL, anything that comes after a question mark isn't necessary for the URL to work. Everything that comes after the question mark is tracking information that allows FB--and other web sites--to track where you got the story from, who clicked on it from FB, and more, more, more. If you want to make it harder for FB to follow you around on-line, delete everything that comes after a question mark in any URL you post.
From the above example, you would post only this: https://medium.com/@vickyalvearshecte... . The URL will work, and it messes up FB's tracking.
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