<div dir="ltr">If there's a # in the URL, generally that's a bookmark within the page, so you can remove that and everything after that unless you are trying to call attention to a specific section of the page. This case is a good example of that.<div><br></div><div>If there's a ? in the URL, the stuff after that is parameters. Sometimes you can remove the ? and everything after that, sometimes the page requires some of those parameters to properly load.</div><div><br></div><div>Ben's advice about the .html is coincidental. It's usually true because the ? or # (or, rarely, another symbol showing something that can be stripped out) usually comes right after .html if it is present, but it is the ? or # (or other symbol) that matters.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:26 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks. And the ? too, right? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:08 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 14/06/2021 00:52, bill w wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(I couldn't find a
way to shorten that link) bill w</div>
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<a href="https://www.treehugger.com/why-were-happier-when-were-older-4861071#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20found%20a,the%20most%20unhappy%20in%20life.&text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20who%20were%20in%20older,perceived%20stress%20than%20younger%20respondents.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank">https://www.treehugger.com/why-were-happier-when-were-older-4861071</a><br>
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These days, most links are about 20% actual url, 80% tracking tags.
just omitting everything after the .html, or # or similar loses the
tracking and keeps the actual link.<br>
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