Filter out mailerlite fields from the query string #17507
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OS/Android
Fixes related to Android browser functionality
OS/Desktop
priority/P3
The next thing for us to work on. It'll ride the trains.
privacy/query-filter
privacy
QA Pass - Android ARM
QA Pass - Android Tab
QA Pass-macOS
QA/Yes
release-notes/include
Milestone
MailerLite is a newsletter service which adds the following fields to outgoing links:
ml_subscriber
ml_subscriber_hash
There are lots of examples in the wild:
They recommend adding their tracking script to all pages of a website. That script looks at these values and sends them to a backend using a tracking pixel, for example like this:
From what I can see in a newsletter I'm subscribed to, the unsubscribe link is completely different and instead uses a base64 blob that's part of the path in order to recover the email address. Therefore, it should be safe to strip these parameters out.
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