"I was unaware that Facebook recently had started to add a unique click identifier to all outbound links on facebook.com. Coincidentally, one of the security measures of this server is to disallow query strings as part of the URL. Thus, any visitors coming over from Facebook were suddenly blocked and banned on sight.

I receive no traffic to speak of from Facebook so I don’t consider banning Facebook users as much of an offense, but hey it’s the season to be jolly. Let’s forget about this particular server’s security policies for a moment and look at how we could use Apache’s mod_rewrite module to stop Facebook from defiling our URLs."

Read, listen or watch the rest here: How to remove Facebook's fbclid parameter using mod_rewrite on Apache 2.4

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