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How to figure out which junk you can remove from URLs

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Company
Date Published
Author
Justin Pot
Word Count
603
Company Posts That Month
61
Language
English
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No
Summary

The author of the text expresses frustration with long URLs and asks if there's a way to remove unnecessary parts, such as tracking parameters. The author explains that tracking parameters, like UTM parameters, are used by companies to track how users found certain content, but they can also be used for legitimate purposes, like starting videos at specific times or taking users to specific sections of pages. The author suggests that most of the extra information in URLs can be removed without affecting the functionality of the link, and provides tools, such as URL Clean and Tracking Token Stripper, that can help remove unwanted parameters.

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