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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdeeqv724o
In roughly 97% of cases, everything starting with the ? is superfluous tracking info to tell the server you're visiting 'where you arrived from'.
I don't normally bring it up unless it contains identifiers like 'fbcli=' which means, when someone clicks it, the server will think their facebook ads are successfully driving traffic. Or, as in this case, an '=twitter' at the end
In roughly 97% of cases, everything starting with the ? is superfluous tracking info to tell the server you're visiting 'where you arrived from'.
I don't normally bring it up unless it contains identifiers like 'fbcli=' which means, when someone clicks it, the server will think their facebook ads are successfully driving traffic. Or, as in this case, an '=twitter' at the end
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