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_phaq on May 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

Because they are data for analytics. Not everyone is a fan of that, especially when the URL points to the servers of a company with such a terrible privacy policy.

samtoday on May 13, 2017 [–]

Surely if you dislike analytics, keeping these bogus utm parameters is "good"? They are misleading the webmaster in some form.

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