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Any time I copy a link to share with someone, I delete the ? and everything after. I want to send the person the link, not whatever metadata the site is trying to collect.

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I do the same. It's what prompted the question: it's annoying that all these links include some tracking, and it feels (to me) that there can't possibly be enough money to be made to make that annoyance worthwhile. Evidently I'm wrong, but I don't really understand the scale at which it becomes valuable.

>there can't possibly be enough money to be made to make that annoyance worthwhile

It's absolutely worthwhile. Most people are not autistic and so they don't even know or care what comprises a link

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