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by tech234a 849 days ago
I've noticed that HN seems to have something that changes URLs based on where their bot gets redirected to. I have also noticed this with YouTube videos where HN will remove the time parameter if I want to submit a link to a specific part of a video.

Can confirm I originally submitted: https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d...

1 comments

thanks, yep HN must have stripped the query param thinking it was an advertising ID or something