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Furthermore interesting is that suppose facebook and google are married, cuz they are, and you pop off facebook to a new tab with a facebook click id in the query string (the part after the ?, dunno if you know this, we just met) and the resulting page includes google analytics, what do you think the odds are that 15 more clicks to google SEO hits and you’ve actually strung together a chain of tracking your whereabouts on the internet?

As you may or may not know, a website when a hit reaches it, the webserver has a parameter field called the referrer (link) and based on the website’s own I think it’s cross origin request something (CORS) it can actually know the full URI (potentially) of the page you were at before you got there. This is a webserver thing, just a thing that’s there.

So if pages are sending with these query strings, and places are recieving for these GET request parameters (if you don’t navigate far from google and on the upper web) then google / fb are tracking u