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I doubt anyone will register to any lemmy instance that does this. One of the reasons people use lemmy is privacy.

This is insanity, humanity is slowly losing its mind. They want AI for everything.

I use this filter in ublock to remove them: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt.

These things are very privacy invading, many of them have information that can identify the users. I don’t think douglasg14b knows what he is talking about. Yes they are query parameters, but they are used for many things such as advertisment for example or referrals, I think it is fine to remove query parameters that are not necessary.

https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/W2SP/2014/papers/privacy_query_strings.pdf

Sometimes the website sends sensitive data through query strings which is a common security issue.

https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/Information_exposure_through_query_strings_in_url

I still use reddit alot, but I use sync. Unfortunately there are still many useful subreddits in reddit that have never moved to Lemmy. For example Usenet subreddit or Fan sub Reddit for tv show and games, and let us not forget anime_titties.