Gmail to Wikipedia URL Codes – How to Prevent Added Codes
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What are these numbers and codes that are added to each my Wikipedia link when I click it in Gmail:
Who is responsible (who is tracking me — Gmail or Wiki)? How to prevent it?
Best Answer
source/ust/usg are Gmail's tracking parameters which are applied to every outgoing link. If you inspect the email, you'll see the <a> tag has a data-saferedirecturl property containing this link. There are various tools to remove it, e.g. the URL tracking stripper Chrome extension.
Wikipedia has many editors, each editor is usually subscribed to change notifications of the article they created/edited during their Wikipedia activity life span. When you make an edit, one of the editors reviews it and if it's spam he will revert the change to the article previous state.
Wikipedia relies on people to filter out the spam, you can do this too by going to the history tab.
Best Answer
source
/ust
/usg
are Gmail's tracking parameters which are applied to every outgoing link. If you inspect the email, you'll see the<a>
tag has adata-saferedirecturl
property containing this link. There are various tools to remove it, e.g. the URL tracking stripper Chrome extension.