Or you could just copy it from the address bar?
Or you could just copy it from the address bar?
1. They don't understand URLs. That's not too surprising to be honest, URLs are pretty complex things.
2. They've been burned enough times by crap SPAs that they don't instantly assume something they are looking at has a dependable URL they can copy and share.
Thanks to 2 I've recently started rethinking a bunch of my own projects - I think I need to add explicit "share" buttons that copy URLs to people's clipboards for them.
I really just put the URL at the end of the page with a `user-select: all;` to make it easy to copy _after_ you've read the content. It's also rendered server-side so even if I used utm or some other tracking things, the query params would automatically not be included in the server-rendered share link, just the permalink to the post.
But to the original authors point, I also do find myself often just copying from the address bar and then manually deleting a bunch of the garbage at the end of URLs. Maybe that's why I thought it nice for a simple "copy this link" when JS is disabled.