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From 2024, but funny to read....

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Never thought about it that way, I usually open sketchy stuff in tor

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you remove the tracking parts of the URL.

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world -2 points 58 minutes ago (2 children)

Remember kids, everything after the ? In a URL is unnecessary tracking! Trim your URLs before sharing!

[–] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 34 minutes ago

Not necessarily, or even usually.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

Depends entirely on the site. Amazon? Sure.

Many other sites will put query information in this part of the URL, so all you're doing is removing the information you put in the previous page and probably invalidating your search results