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I mean…the site that broke should know what to do with arbitrary query strings. If your site breaks when someone puts in an invalid query string, that’s on you?

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This. Query strings are a standard feature and have many more purposes beyond tracking.

Yes, and if the site actually used query strings, then it would of course accept them. Why does it have any reason to accept invalid query strings?

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