Yes. Buried in the settings there’s an option to disable it

  • Prime@lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 hours ago

    No, that’s wrong. All url shorteners work exactly like that. How did you get the initial link anyway?

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      55 minutes ago

      What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.

      This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like hxxp://Firefox.domain ?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=promo&utm_id=wa-spam&utm_term=share&utm_content=click for maximum tracking analysis

      Edit: TIL Lemmy automatically removes tracking tags from URLs… I had to type again my delicious tracking link…

      Edit2: Lemmy removes tracking tags even from code blocks 😲

      Edit3: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with an invalid protocol

      Edit4: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with invalid TLD