Is there a way/setting to disable the feature that adds ?u=Username at the end of the link when sharing a discourse topic via the share link button? [image]

No, there is no way to disable this.

Would it be possible to add a global setting or a per-user setting to disable this in the future?

I believe the assumption is that if someone doesn’t like that kind of behavior that they can already recognise and remove it themselves. Thus far that has held pretty true. Worst case they can also grab the URL direct from the address bar.

Technically you could build a theme component that disables it, CDCK (us) have no plans of creating such a component, if you really really want it maybe make a Marketplace topic.

You can find the code in below topic. [image] Twitter shared URL has a query string Support Okay. If you still prefer to not having it add the below javascript in your discourse customization. It’s working fine for me as you wanted. <script> jQuery( docu…

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) February 1, 2019, 7:20am 6

You can find the code in below topic.

Topic		Replies	Views
Disable “?u=<user>” in shared links Support	10	2640	September 11, 2018
Stop appending ?username to url when badge system disabled? Feature	1	756	September 28, 2020
Clean Share URL – per-user opt-out of username attribution Theme component	0	60	August 5, 2026
"Share a link" for a post should not leak username Feature completed	26	5601	September 22, 2022
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