35 karma · joined February 21, 2017
We do this by adding a hash character (#) to a link.
By design, browsers don’t share anything after this
character.
It is astonishing to read that. Just absolutely mind blowing.
Browsers absolutely can and DO share things coming after the hash (#) character in a URL. How?
JavaScript! It's absurdly easy to siphon anchor hashes out of the address bar with JavaScript, and send them back to the mothership, or anywhere else for that matter. It's basically how oh-so-many Very Big Websites work.
Are you kidding me?!