What's the gnarliest URL you've copied this week? Paste it. ๐๐งน
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 โย 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 โย 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. ๐)
So โ drop the worst URL you've copied this week ๐ 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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