[Tagging] URL tracking parameters

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 25, 2020, 12:21 by frederik at remote.org:

> Hi,
>
> On 25.02.20 11:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>> Yes. And we don't even need to do that: we can verify it with about 30
>> seconds' Googling.
>>
>
> Ok ok you're right.
>
> The URL does contain a tracking token but it does not exclusively track
> OSM usage.
>
> I have overreacted because I have in the past dealt with advertisers who
> had added an OSM-specific "campaign" ID the the links which was clearly
> out of line, and suspected the same here.
>
> This leads to the interesting question of what the correct URL for a
> business is and who decides that. If the business owner says "but the
> correct URL for my business is ...?wdycf=openstreetmap", what do we do?
>
Check whatever url works after removing tracking.

> In theory they could configure their web site to only accept a few
> well-defined wdycf values.
>
In this case I would either remove url or change url to other valid
wdycf value. And I would probably request blocking such user by DWG.
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