Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by broodbucket 5 days ago
I don't click share buttons because I don't know what it's going to do. I don't want something copied that says "Check out this Thing on this Site! <url>" because then I have to delete half of it at which point it's slower than copying the URL. If every share button had the same behaviour then maybe I would.
2 comments

This. It may copy a url or it may automatically send me to my Facebook profile and prepopulate a post. Very rarely do share buttons copy a simple meaningful url to my clipboard.
So true. I too dual as an automatic link cleaner.

When I receive a link with a 100 character hash attached I gasp and yell at the person who sent me it (my wife normally)

They put so much stuff into the URL, usually my user ID, my phone, browser info etc…

I don’t necessarily want the people I share the link with to know my potentially pseudonymous user.