Soulcreator @ Soulcreator @programming.dev Posts 0Comments 6Joined 2 mo. ago
I'm a web developer in a marketing department and agreed UTM tags aren't really nefarious. We generally use them to track campaigns, and to see the effectiveness of our paid campaigns. (As in how much of a return on investment did we have, are people continuing to traverse the site after hitting the landing page, etc) That said those codes generally don't give us any info about the user other than what parts of the site you are hitting, (which we can find out through other means anyway). There are tools out there which can give us a creepy amount of data about the users on the site, but UTMs aren't it.
Removing them when sending out links is good practice as you probably only really need a fraction of the characters in order to get to the site, so your links are cleaner, you look like less of an idiot, and ironically marketers will end up having cleaner data (I doubt you care about this, but it's true.)
That said, if you really want to prevent sites from getting your data when browsing turning off JavaScript in your browser would probably have the biggest impact.
Totally agreed, I haven't touched reddit in years but the diversity of people and options is what made Reddit so fun. After using Lemmy for a few years I can't imagine it ever getting to where Reddit was.
I'm pretty sure I'm completely missing the point, but how on earth did you find yourself in the situation? Like your dick out and blindfolded in a location that virtually anyone can walk into. All of a sudden with little warning you feel something happening down there but you don't peek or ask what's up, you just sit there silently and long enough for you to realize you're getting the best blowjob of your life.
Honestly the more I describe the scenario the more I realize unless it's a trusted partner, this is not the type of scenario that most women would immediately just start going to town without reason. So if you are strictly looking for a woman, at very least one of sound mind you are probably SOL.
Except for mangos! I can't eat a ripe mango without getting half of it stuck in-between my teeth.
It's funny how quickly Lemmy will get nasty on people for asking the wrong questions.
Not everyone with a contrary viewpoint is a troll, and some people can actually be won over to your perspective with a friendly conversation.
I'd love to know your thoughts why the Internet is systemically right leaning? I don't spend too much time on the political side of YouTube, but similar to op I've been perpetually confused as to why Instagram runs so hard to the right.
The idea that the Internet being systemically right leaning is super interesting and may explain a lot.