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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 25, 2020, 12:21 by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 25.02.20 11:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Yes. And we don't even need to do that: we can verify it with about 30<br></div><div>seconds' Googling.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok ok you're right.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The URL does contain a tracking token but it does not exclusively track<br></div><div>OSM usage.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have overreacted because I have in the past dealt with advertisers who<br></div><div>had added an OSM-specific "campaign" ID the the links which was clearly<br></div><div>out of line, and suspected the same here.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This leads to the interesting question of what the correct URL for a<br></div><div>business is and who decides that. If the business owner says "but the<br></div><div>correct URL for my business is ...?wdycf=openstreetmap", what do we do?<br></div></blockquote><div>Check whatever url works after removing tracking.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>In theory they could configure their web site to only accept a few<br></div><div>well-defined wdycf values.<br></div></blockquote><div>In this case I would either remove url or change url to other valid<br></div><div>wdycf value. And I would probably request blocking such user by DWG.<br></div> </body>
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