Feb 25, 2020, 12:21 by [email protected]: > Hi, > > On 25.02.20 11:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Yes. And we don't even need to do that: we can verify it with about 30 >> seconds' Googling. >> > > Ok ok you're right. > > The URL does contain a tracking token but it does not exclusively track > OSM usage. > > I have overreacted because I have in the past dealt with advertisers who > had added an OSM-specific "campaign" ID the the links which was clearly > out of line, and suspected the same here. > > This leads to the interesting question of what the correct URL for a > business is and who decides that. If the business owner says "but the > correct URL for my business is ...?wdycf=openstreetmap", what do we do? > Check whatever url works after removing tracking. > In theory they could configure their web site to only accept a few > well-defined wdycf values. > In this case I would either remove url or change url to other valid wdycf value. And I would probably request blocking such user by DWG.
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