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Yes, it does, but I think there is almost no way around that. Many sites still use query parameters to show a specific blog entry for example... :/

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Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash. This would also give a chance to scan for malicious content

> Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash.

I'm not sure what you mean here? I've not seen a site tell you "We don't use this query parameter" if you stick an additional param on there.

I think the idea is to detect when different URLs contain the same content. That defends against duplicate entries like example.com/?foo and example.com/?bar (which are the same page).

Fetch the page, hash the contents, compare hashes.

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