[ExI] URLs (was: Re: statins bad? again? sorry - I did not know where to cut it off. bill w)

[William Flynn Wallace]

I just did what Adrian said and removed the ? and everything that followed,
checked it out to make sure it went to the right page, which it did, and
sent it.  No problem   bill w

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:18 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> To each their own.   I strip all of that stuff you're concerned about
> either way, but I do use tinyurl on other lists without issues.   I won't
> use it here based on your concern though.
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 1:09 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/08/2020 20:55, Dylan Distasio wrote:
>>
>> If you want to shorten urls across the board without editing, you can use
>> a service like tinyurl.com which lets you paste in the full link and it
>> will shorten it for you to a very succinct one.
>>
>>
>> So it will, but some of use are less concerned with the length of urls
>> than with the click-tracking. Using tinyurl will only make that problem
>> worse, not better. Much worse, in fact, as you can't see the tracking code
>> to strip it off. Personally, I won't click on anonymised links like the
>> tinyurl ones. They can hide a multitude of sins.
>>
>> --
>> Ben Zaiboc
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