Won't this only apply _after_ you've loaded the page? Doesn't really help preven...

devindotcom · on Feb 21, 2020

Could still be handy for people who don't mind the URL loading big but might later want to copy-paste it somewhere in cleaner format.

BerislavLopac · on Feb 22, 2020

I generally use it just before I trigger the "post to News.YC" bookmarklet. ;-)

    javascript:window.location=%22http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+%22&t=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.title)