When you simply click to “share” or “link” to a web site, you’ll be passing along a lot of data about yourself including what they might consider your UID. If you don’t care if you’re stalked, then never mind.
However, look for a “question mark” (?) in the link. That mark and everything after it is NOT essential to the link. It’s additional data the sending site is attaching to the link in order to inform the destination site who you are and where you came from.
Delete that and it still works just fine, but you’re much safer.
And that’s our Teachable Moment for the day!
Note :: Teachable Moments always includes full fact checking links some state influenced social medias will attempt to convince you that the content is false or misleading. Our full fact check links assure that people can be confident the moments are not fake news. You may not agree, but you simply cannot condemn them as ‘fake’. You are welcome to share the meme at the top of this article, formatted to look good on any state influenced social media like, Facebook or Twitter.
