<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 8:40 PM Victor/tuxayo <<a href="mailto:victor@tuxayo.net">victor@tuxayo.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 20-02-25 04:36, Jonathon Rossi wrote:<br>
> Does OSM have a position on these tracking parameters, WT.mc_id, utm_*,<br>
> fbclid, etc? I couldn't find anything on the wiki.<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:website" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:website</a><br>
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It's implied in the following best practice:<br>
<br>
> Use as short a URL as possible. Choose simple URLs over complex URLs if they basically point to the same content. For example, use <a href="https://bahn.de/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bahn.de/</a> instead of <a href="https://www.bahn.de/p/view/index.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bahn.de/p/view/index.shtml</a>, as both will get you to the front page. Websites are frequently redesigned, so strive for the most "robust" URL that works.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks. I did think that statement would apply here, but it just didn't have as strong of a wording. I do wonder if some contributors don't realise that these parameters are not necessary to function, and that they should actually remove them.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:22 PM Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ok ok you're right.<br>
<br>
The URL does contain a tracking token but it does not exclusively track<br>
OSM usage.<br>
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I have overreacted because I have in the past dealt with advertisers who<br>
had added an OSM-specific "campaign" ID the the links which was clearly<br>
out of line, and suspected the same here.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had used this Hilton one as an example because it just happened and the tracking parameters were so widespread, I too hadn't noticed their own web site adds those. There are also a lot of <u>utm_source=ig_profile_share</u> ones which individual contributors have probably added without realising wasn't part of the website URL.</div><div><br></div><div>There are however ones which would have been done intentionally, <u>utm_source=OpenStreetMap</u> and <u>utm_source=mapsme</u>.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Jono</div></div>