Facebook Parameters

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We are using URL Shortify to create friendly URLs that resolve to include a parameter used to track who referred the visitor to our page. For example, https://light.ai/facebook is used on our Facebook page.

Recently Facebook themselves started appending the URL with their own parameter called “FBCLID”. The Facebook parameter is then assigned a unique tracking ID that they use. Here’s an example with our link embedded in there…

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flight.ai%2Ffacebook%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08g5Wr_kuqB3tZjA-L-x0_sPT9u8ZFqDz05Uk3nrf0SUILMLv3-NMITuE&h=AT10gzHFni9S1-C2z6Dau9h3moXHP7EBFmL-SoNsRG8aZbv41DyaTVQjntHMNBp0frpFjnO7vfKI53tHcSYxe6dtmimJbu83ibb9p-mi55L90cGw4V0cygbhK9p_6v4mYALc2gjtqg&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1jqOQMAa4rBui0Lf8SDYleNRoM_XslcuvOUSdaIJLqfs88686_B5HSX-KMhsD8egL-O3WNp99Se5_ZeaBiZzOFCFF9InbYUtkG0SI_gt334HziqoPb3qXBAVugSjwt1Ydz4CHRokAoo6R0oo5UrLg3ftGuNyE6VgDyZZmQtzvqggkDm_F0Y3jqVx8rk3o

When the URL Shortify plugin resolves the URL, it appends the Facebook parameter and corrupts our analytics and reporting.

Is it possible to have URL Shortify strip the additional Facebook URL parameter?

Here’s an article that shows how to resolve the problem for Google Analytics by including an optional “Exclude URL Query Parameters” setting,,,

https://www.glowmetrics.com/blog/what-is-fbclid-how-to-remove-fbclid-parameter-from-google-analytics/

Something like this would be helpful.

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