# "Share a link" for a post should not leak username

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-a-link-for-a-post-should-not-leak-username/66489>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [2017 年7 月 20 日 05:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-a-link-for-a-post-should-not-leak-username/66489 "2017-07-20T05:23:45Z")\
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作者： ![RalfJung](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ralfjung/32/51654_2.png) [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)\
发布日期： [2017 年7 月 20 日 05:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-a-link-for-a-post-should-not-leak-username/66489/1 "2017-07-20T05:23:45Z")

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Currently, using the “Share a link” or copying the URL associated with a post’s timestamp results in a URL that contains the username of whoever does the copying, if that person happened to be logged in at the time. This poses some privacy concern: If the link gets shared around, possibly forwarded multiple times, it exposes who was the original person to create it – like a watermark. While it is possible to just remove the `u=...`, this is easily forgotten when just copy-pasting URLs around. After all, users do not typically expect a URL to leak information like this. I also tried hard to come up with a good reason for why the username is in the link, and failed – I suppose there is a reason, but I wonder if it is worth the cost?

So, please remove the `u=...` at the end of posts’ URLs.

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