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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Shared on Facebook with the caption "Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?"

It's an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper "The Australian", so I won't link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title "The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled" and byline "by Sam McPhee".

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[-] Merlin@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I watched an interesting video explaining how to transport 96k people for the show.

https://youtu.be/1X42qWBNTLo

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Delete the ? and everything after it to remove tracking info.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Be careful telling people to do that, because it'll break everything if they try to do it with a regular non-shortened URL!

But yes, 100% always delete the 'si' part.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Also some sites sign the link in the parameters and removing tracking information renders the link unusable. Those bastards

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah true. Facebook's started doing this. But I was just talking about YouTube links specifically.

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