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🟢Feature Highlight (Privacy)

⛔Prevent URL Tracking

What is URL Tracking?

Link tracking or URL tracking is primarily a marketing and advertising tool for companies to learn more about their users. Examples are where a user shared a link from, who they shared it with, who clicked/engaged with the link, and so on. Affiliate links are one of the most common examples of URL Tracking. They are more or less undesired cookies that we didn't ask for or sign up for.

Another common example is UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) and it is designed to track and analyze the performance of marketing campaigns by identifying traffic sources. Surely, you have seen the super long URLs with snippets added like utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, and so on.

Example:
website.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sale

✅Vector Fixes This
As soon as you paste a link with the URL tracking on it you copied from somewhere online, it is automatically detected and stripped so the tracking stops there. You are no longer passing along unwanted trackers on yourself and to your contacts.