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Long-form explainers on how URL tracking parameters work — what they leak, who reads them, and why LinkClean handles them the way it does.

• Do cleaned links still work?Short answer: yes. Tracking parameters are read by analytics scripts after the page loads — the page itself doesn't need them. Here's why, with exceptions.
• What's hidden in a share link?A phone-share link's tail of trackers reveals where you clicked from, which ad credited the click, and which campaign got the credit. Unpacked here.
• What t= and s= mean in an X (Twitter) share URLX share URLs end in ?t=…&s=…: s is a 2-digit device + share-method code (s=46 = iPhone Copy Link), t a per-device session token. What they do, and how to remove them.
• Click IDs vs UTM tags: what's the difference?Tracking parameters fall into two big families: anonymous campaign tags (utm_*) and per-click ad-network identifiers (fbclid, gclid, msclkid, ttclid). Here's how they differ and why LinkClean strips both.
• How to share a clean link — the practice, by platformWhy cleaning a link before sharing matters, and the per-platform workflow for X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Amazon, and email.
• Google's ad-click URL parameters, explained (gclid, gad_source, gbraid…)Google Ads auto-tags clicks with gclid, gbraid, wbraid, dclid, gad_source and gad_campaignid. Here's what each one is, what the gad_source numbers mean, and why every one is safe to strip.

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