alt Hacker NewsHow much do platforms mangle people’s links? Figured I’d check the ones you mention. (I was actually mildly surprised to be able to find examples in all of them without needing to log in once. I thought LinkedIn and ChatGPT wouldn’t.)
Facebook: no.
Pinterest: ?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic.
ChatGPT: ?utm_source=chatgpt.com. (Aside: wow it’s confidently and atrociously wrong if you ask it about me. Ask it just vaguely enough, and it hallucinates someone clearly inspired by me, but who has done a whole lot of stuff that I haven’t. Ask it more precisely about me, and it gets all kinds of details wrong still. I feel further vindicated in hating this stuff. You made me use ChatGPT for the very first time.)
LinkedIn: no.
Twitter: no.
Reddit: no.
YouTube: no.
> if you get enough traffic that you can pick which sources you want to allow, that's a good problem to have.
Nah, I just don’t care about them. It’s my place, I’m doing things on my own terms. Should I discover it to be causing me problems, I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.
Facebook does, I'm not sure why it didn't in your case. It adds an "fbclid" parameter that is quite long. I just tried it to confirm.
Edit: Perhaps it only mangles links for logged-in users? That raises the possibility that some of the others may also only affect logged-in users.
(Trying with other ones I'm logged in on: Reddit doesn't mangle (obviously), Twitter doesn't mangle.)