Audible and Amazon pack a lot of information into their URLs, firstly to identify the book, but also to track the person browsing their site.
It's possible they could use that to identify your IP and perhaps identity; though no indication that they have ever done that, yet. But also, they get rather huge and messy, much easier to use and compare if you cut them down to the book info only.
You start with the Audible or Amazon URL you arrive at on their site:
AUDIBLEhttps://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cold-Is-in-Her-Bones-Audiobook/1508268932?qid=1560787299&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=RBN3T43GKTFGGX04PKVSBreak it down:
the domain
www.audible.com/a directory name: /pd/
the title: /The-Cold-Is-in-Her-Bones-Audiobook/
the ASIN code: 10 characters:
1508268932then a ?qid -- maybe query ID? In any case, it relates to the browser, maybe the date and time and other pages you've viewed, not the book. So cut it off at the ASIN to get:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cold-Is-in-Her-Bones-Audiobook/1508268932Actually, the title string is unnecessary and you can cut that to get
https://www.audible.com/pd/1508268932Though that makes it less humanly readable.
and
AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Away-Shadows-RCN-Book/dp/B07SFZJYY1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=to+clear+away+the+shadows&link_code=qs&qid=1560781222&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1domain:
www.amazon.comtitle: /Clear-Away-Shadows-RCN-Book/
directory: /dp/
ASIN:
B07SFZJYY1References: /ref=s.....
Again, we can make this
https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Away-Shadows-RCN-Book/dp/B07SFZJYY1or minimise to
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SFZJYY1So, just truncate the URL after the ASIN and you get a simpler, anonymous URL.
Doing this often cuts the URL down by 2/3 or more, leaving URLs that are easier to copy and sort and compare; and don't report to Amazon who made the original request.
We'd appreciate it if you could use this and trim URLs before you press the SAVE button on your posts.
