Is it just me or does having a positive interaction with a stranger scratch a very particular itch? I think it's the reassurance that the world is not split solely into people who already love you and people who never will.

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Tumblr is Tracking Shared Links

It looks like Tumblr @staff have finally implemented tracking garbage into shared links in the Tumblr mobile app. It took them years and years, but Tumblr is finally making an attempt to track shared links you click or links you share with friends.

When you share a post and choose to “copy” a link to your clipboard, you can see that they use their (new?) url shortener, at.tumblr.com.  The shortened URL appears to contain: your blog name; either the ID of the destination post, or the short string associated with the post; and an alphanumeric string.  Eg:

The shortened URL redirects you to the destination link, but with 2 URL parameters: _branch_referrer and _branch_match_id.  Both are associated with a third-party analytics tool, branch.io.  Eg:

_branch_referrer appears to be another shortened at.tumblr.com URL, except it’s been gzipped, base64 encoded, then URL encoded.  Eg:

_branch_match_id, according to this stackoverflow answer, is an identifier unique to you, used to track users.  It could be based on browser fingerprinting, as branch.io’s branch_match_id is.

Anyway, there’s not a terribly easy way to avoid this tracking from the Tumblr mobile app, but if you get a link that has the id, not the string, you can modify it to the format of blog.tumblr.com/ID, like so before sending it to a friend:

Alternately, you could paste the link in your browser, allow it to redirect, then remove everything past the ? at the end, eg:

Anyway, this has been my privacy rant of the day.  Thanks for reading, and let me know if you know more about this than I do!

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Skin doesn’t get enough credit for being waterproof

do y'all ever just wanna.. *creates 58263293 blogs for every single interest of mine*

literally literally literally

i am in a state of constant existential crisis

e.e. cummings, “in the rain” (from Tulips), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

im not religious but ill get on my knees for you

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Old as the universe itself

i saw a shirt online the other day that said "if i don't turn it into a joke it will destroy me" yea

When you like the lyrics of a musician but can’t vibe with their actual music so you just read them like poetry.

— John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds