What's the gnarliest URL you've copied this week? Paste it. ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿงน

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Easy one to kick us off. This isย one Amazon product pageย โ€” a watch โ€” exactly as Amazon handed me the link:


The page it actually points to?


Same watch, same page โ€”ย 13 tracking parameters lighter, including a 350-characterย dibย blob (base64-encoded JSON), threeย pd_rd_*ย recommendation-engine ids, aย qidย that's literally a timestamp of when I searched,ย content-id,ย srs,ย rnid,ย _encoding, and theย /ref=ย breadcrumb of exactly how I got there. From ~900 characters to ~120. None of it changed where the link goes.

(Two stragglers survive โ€”ย xpidย andย ASINย โ€” because they're not in the open rule sets Unfurl builds on yet. Spotting gaps like that is half of why I'm here. ๐Ÿ˜„)

So โ€” drop the worst URL you've copied this week ๐Ÿ‘‡ The longer and junkier, the better. Bonus points if you can name what each parameter is actually tracking (half of them are a mystery even to me).


(Full disclosure: I build Unfurl, a small on-device app that strips this stuff out automatically. Reply with your monster and I'll post what it shrinks down to โ€” a little before/after. But honestly, I mostly just want to see how bad they get out there.) What've you got?

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