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by mtmail 4161 days ago
Love the data. Don't like the &utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=box part of the URL. Is commenting really a campaign and worth tracking?
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In Firefox, you can automatically strip utm[0], but even more fun - there's a utm poisoner for Chrome[1] that replaces the values with garbage.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/au-revoir-utm...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddln...

I like tracking everything. Just curious, why does it bother you?
Curious: How many clicks did you get?
can't this be tracked by referer links?
The referrers get stripped when you come from an https site like HN, so you actually can't