• Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    “everything after the ? Symbol can be removed without issue” is a bold statement to make. Reminds me when the TV news had a specialist telling people to look at urls before clicking and check if it ends with “.php” as that would mean it is a virus.

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      3 hours ago

      Difference being that the ? in URLs separates the resource from additional information

      So unless some website decides to identify the resource in those query field (for example search results pages in a web search), you are generally safe

      In any case, messaging apps will try to navigate to the site to create a caption for your message, and that can be a way to check if it works or not