[mananaysiempre]

At the risk of falling afoul of the site guidelines, can I complain about an uncommon annoyance? Apparently this blog pulls a Facebook, or more precisely a fbclid, and adds ref=blog.phnx.im as a query parameter to every link. This seems less than fitting for a post on a privacy technology, and actually breaks the link to the IETF BoF minutes[1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/minutes-1...

[raphaelrobert]

Thank you for bringing this up! It appears ghost has this turned on by default, and I turned it off now. Sorry for any inconvenience. For context, we had an internal debate whether we should host the blog ourselves, but ultimately decided to use ghost. It ticked a few boxes, being open-source and run by a non-profit. The fact that it would do outbound link tagging by default really comes as a surprise, so thanks again for bringing it up.

[wkrp]

That's something ghost.org does by default. I unknowingly ran into the same issue for my blog.

[dalanmiller]

How does one turn this off?

[cityroler]

ghost Settings > Analytics > Outbound link tagging

[eps]

Oh, the irony.