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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

... and often such links don't work right on other sites and in various messaging apps. I've been deleting everything from the first question mark after for years.

There's similar issues with trying to share google search results and sites linked to via reddit and others. Just stupid long, error-prone urls for no good reason.