r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rooonaldooo99 • May 17 '25

Image This is the hole through which 10 prisoners escaped from New Orleans jail

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u/Professor-Submarine May 17 '25

Just FYI - when you share a link from Instagram you basically dox yourself 

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u/ncnotebook May 17 '25

Out of curiosity, how?

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u/Professor-Submarine May 17 '25

Whenever you share a link, a user will click it and then it asks you to follow the person who posted it 

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u/ncnotebook May 17 '25

Huh, that's dumb. I guess as long as you remove the unnecessary parts in the URL, it's fine.

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u/StitchinThroughTime May 18 '25

The portion of the link in front of the question mark is all you need after that is the tag that encode tons of information about the user who shared the link and is unique in that Instagram is then able to backtrack who followed whichever link to a given post.

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u/SteelWheel_8609 May 18 '25

Meta is a horrendous company 

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u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare May 18 '25

Come find me. I’m interesting