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Dear_Prudence

(368 posts) Fri Mar 15, 2024, 07:33 PM Mar 15

Tracking links?

I posted my first link to a story this week. I haven't figured out how to excerpt an article yet, so I won't post again until I figure that out. (Some complaints lately on videos without accompanying text have me back to the drawing board). So on a post today I saw 'edited to take tracking out of link'. I had not heard of this, but I don't want to accidently post some kind of poison pill. I did google it, but got lots of articles on how to create a tracking link. If it is easy to edit out the tracking, please point me in the right direction. Or, if I can just spot a tracking link, at least I will know not to post it. (All of us will eventually get left behind by technology. I got an A in Fortran. )