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by kageneko 2794 days ago
I use Neat URL[0] with Firefox to strip things like that from URLs.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/

2 comments

That's cool, but only really protects the surfer. Instead of stripping them, you could also either fill them with garbage values, or with more effort, swap the parameters with another link. This would degrade the analytics results, but might be harder to detect. And if enough people used it, you'd get some kind of herd tracking immunity.
Do you know if the rewrite happens before a user clicks a link? If it happens after, the data ends up actually being sent out to their server...