Ordering from Amazon

Thanks, that's useful.

If you are passing an Amazon link to someone, always strip off the tracking stuff to make it manageable (not all have a question mark). Then go further. Delete /ref and everything after it at the end (also tracking). Then delete the description (between .co.uk/ and /dp), leaving one /.

So (for example):

Even better is to clink on the ‘link’ icon (a square with a up-arrow) and follow the options to Copy.

Unsurprisingly, doing that on the page your link returns gives a shortcut but without the faffing about, although doing this gave a different reference:

TBH I like the description being included as I prefer not to follow random opaque links (especially Youtube). In your example I'd break at the last slash, ie:

If you're putting it in an SMS or something I can see why you'd strip it further though.

Theo

Is that specific to the browser you're using? I don't see it in Firefox or Vivaldi.

It’s there on Startpage and DuckDuckGo, to the right and below the image of the item.

It isn’t appearing, and neither is the image, on Safari that has JavaScript turned off.

Am 21.11.25 um 12:47 schrieb Bob Eager:

Newest version of Firefox can do that from the right click menu.

It doesn't strip everything, e.g. a link from Mashable

will be cleaned by firefox to

when it could be

The easiest method, for me, is to just copy the unique product page code (an example "B0FH4VVZNJ") section of the URL[1] and tell the person to whom you are sending the link, to simply paste those 10(ish?) characters into the Amazon website's own search box at the top of the page.

The next reduction would be to convert that to a Godel number.

Sam Plusnet snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote

Its actually easier to edit the full url all the stuff back to and including the "?ref_=" so you dont have to tell the recipient what to do with what you send the recipient, they can just click or tap on it as usual unless its done in tiktok. Works fine in messenger and facebook