Random Muses Of Mine

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

who's gonna know you?

The Tortured Poets Department = Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys = Emily's Quest, L.M. Montgomery

Down Bad = Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

So Long London = Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

But Daddy I Love Him = Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

Fresh Out the Slammer = Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano

Florida!!! = Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Guilty as Sin = Crush, Richard Siken

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? = "Fan-Fiction," Tavi Gevinson

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) = Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Nancy Schoenberger and Sam Kashner

loml = Averno, Louise Glück

I Can Do It with a Broken Heart = Tracy Flick Can't Win, Tom Perrotta

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived = "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor

The Alchemy = Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Clara Bow = The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher

The cosmic ballet