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peter lena
 
Handy Don

Just an FYI here to those posting useful and helpful links to web pages.

 

In a link, ALL of the text from the “?” to the end is extra information being sharing by the person doing the searching with the owner of the website being used.

 

This extra information is NOT essential to simply getting to the right page. It can include information about the computer being used, about pages already looked at, and much more--some of it can be personally identifiable. This is related to, but is not, a “cookie” and so a browser doesn’t filter or prevent it. In some situations, like when someone is in a shopping “session” on a site, this stuff is essential. At other times it is shameless (greedy?) data collection.

 

For example, the text "trk_msg=GQTR4DV1UOIKD58QBL7VRFTCPC&trk_contact=4UPCIPTJ6JEVI02EQULBVPKMPK” are identifying the specific request for this webpage AND the “user” that requested it. If you are a shopper, this lets the website keep track as you navigate from page to page and add things to your cart.

 

In the above example, the link below is enough to request the page on the dennis kirk website for the product (stock keeping unit, aka SKU) 519965.

 

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