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Ex Boeing employee unable to appear at whistleblowing suit because he mysteriously died. (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Totally unrelated to the Boeing that lost a wheel last week or the Boeing that had "a strong movement" today, injuring 50.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wtf is the abomination of a link you just posted. This is a direct link to the article https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

This is what you posted https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[bbc.news.twitter]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_link_id=F3DFD698-DFEC-11EE-8A76-00CE4B3AC5C4&at_bbc_team=editorial

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't use it anymore, but some friends who are still on FB tend to grab whatever link gets copied onto the clipboard and share the spaghetti links like this with a bunch of trackers. I'm guessing this one was Twitter. But regardless, I'm always thinking, do they not notice or care??

[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot 30 points 8 months ago

If they are still using Facebook, they most likely have a limited understanding of the internet, and have no idea what query parameters are, so they think the full "link from the Google search bar" is required

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They dont know. I work in IT and it took some time for my partner to understand why i hate such links and where she can cut the parameters of. But from now on almost all links she sends are clean and I am grinning everytime, knowing that she learned about those pesky trackers and actually decided to fight 'em.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Firefox has an option to auto remove trackers for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Firefox has a new context menu option "copy link without tracking". Super handy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

NEAT! And I was just thinking about making my own extension.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's pretty fucked up, sorry, I was on my phone.

fixed the link

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Not suspicious at all.