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If you’re cleared, ClearanceJobs.com is great. I don’t think I got any scammers from there. Monster and Dice used to be my go-to sites but I got nothing good from them the last time (November last year).

Yup. I’m copying some Audible links now and the ampersand isn’t encrypted and the query string starts after the ? instead of the last slash, so there are different ways of doing it. We couldn’t guess at that, though! :)

Everything after the final slash is data. This data is stored in key/value pairs, where the key is a variable name that is expected in the server’s code and the characters following the “=“ is the encrypted value. Each pair is separated by an encrypted “&”, or “&”. Many times this string of values begins with a “?”.

https://example.com/path/to/item/?id=568953&name=shjbxsdhjhcdf&xyz=djkkgcdtjn

So we can maybe guess what the values might be but only if we know what the keys mean, and then we’d have to give exactly the right data for each key (id, name, xyz). For all we know the most important piece of data in that string is xyz and it may be required, but we don’t know that so we strip the whole query string off and now have a useless URL.

Mostly, stripping off the query string should be fine if the path to the item you’re looking for is enough. Like the amazon example in the other comment. Other times, not so much.

Sorry for the novel, I can explain more if you’d like.

No exactly the same, but still have 💖

They’re turning down the free steak because the [insert ethnicity/whatever difference here] person might get one too.

I skim over so much in the tale of the twins, all the technical discussion of genetics puts me to sleep. Then the adopted daughter rips my heart out of my chest…

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I have only just now gotten the notification for your response. I have to think that’s our answer.

Our website is a great source: https://www.heinleinsociety.org/pay-it-forward/

Feel free to browse, there’s lots of information there.

Welcome!

There are three posts I made, maybe it's not federating? I'm not sure how all that works across instances.

Aw, thanks :)