I'm a web developer in a marketing department and agreed UTM tags aren't really nefarious. We generally use them to track campaigns, and to see the effectiveness of our paid campaigns. (As in how much of a return on investment did we have, are people continuing to traverse the site after hitting the landing page, etc) That said those codes generally don't give us any info about the user other than what parts of the site you are hitting, (which we can find out through other means anyway). There are tools out there which can give us a creepy amount of data about the users on the site, but UTMs aren't it.
Removing them when sending out links is good practice as you probably only really need a fraction of the characters in order to get to the site, so your links are cleaner, you look like less of an idiot, and ironically marketers will end up having cleaner data (I doubt you care about this, but it's true.)
That said, if you really want to prevent sites from getting your data when browsing turning off JavaScript in your browser would probably have the biggest impact.
Honestly canonically speaking we don't know much about Number One after she left the Enterprise, at some point she may have ended up working at Daystrom, where in a shift in career trajectory she went on to develop computer systems and ended up becoming the system that they use in the 24th.
Or maybe she became so revered that they honored her by using her voice as the computer systems.
Long story short this kind of makes a lot of sense in my own personal head canon.
Totally agreed, I haven't touched reddit in years but the diversity of people and options is what made Reddit so fun. After using Lemmy for a few years I can't imagine it ever getting to where Reddit was.
I'd love to know your thoughts why the Internet is systemically right leaning? I don't spend too much time on the political side of YouTube, but similar to op I've been perpetually confused as to why Instagram runs so hard to the right.
The idea that the Internet being systemically right leaning is super interesting and may explain a lot.
I'm a web developer in a marketing department and agreed UTM tags aren't really nefarious. We generally use them to track campaigns, and to see the effectiveness of our paid campaigns. (As in how much of a return on investment did we have, are people continuing to traverse the site after hitting the landing page, etc) That said those codes generally don't give us any info about the user other than what parts of the site you are hitting, (which we can find out through other means anyway). There are tools out there which can give us a creepy amount of data about the users on the site, but UTMs aren't it.
Removing them when sending out links is good practice as you probably only really need a fraction of the characters in order to get to the site, so your links are cleaner, you look like less of an idiot, and ironically marketers will end up having cleaner data (I doubt you care about this, but it's true.)
That said, if you really want to prevent sites from getting your data when browsing turning off JavaScript in your browser would probably have the biggest impact.