Filter out rb_clickid from URLs #17451
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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
rb_clickid
was added as a tracking parameter in jparise/chrome-utm-stripper#44, but it's very hard to find any information about it (note that we should leavelinkid
alone for webcompat reasons).It's used all over the place on Russian sites, for example:
A lot of Russian websites also exclude it in their
robots.txt
, for example https://esh-derevenskoe.ru/robots.txt.The TopMailRu tracker does seem to use it, though their minified code is especially hard to decipher.
The only blog post I could find about it only mentions that it's often seen in combination with
utm_source=mytarget
though the example above shows that it's not always the case.Based on its name and the fact that it's high-entropy, we should assume that this is tracking users as opposed to campaigns.
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