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		indymike on March 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does "Copy clean link" mean? I love the idea of reducing extra paramspam on urls... but this is easily defeated with a redirect. I.e. somedomain.com/<uid here>

suddenclarity on March 9, 2023 [–]

Isn't this more of a convince when sharing a link than removing the tracking from your own sessions? It kinda assumes that you're already at the final destination when copying so no redirect will be of any use. Or I'm just misunderstanding the purpose.

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