Comment by chrismorgan

I didn’t imagine that I would stir up quite so much interest when I decided to ban query strings!

When I said, “if it isn’t there, it’s prob­ably for a good reason”, I was fully aware of native apps, and decided to gloss over them, because I doubt (on no evidence) they’re so significant for me, and things like email and feed readers may well be web apps anyway. And because I’ve tended to fine nuance in the past, and am trying being concise instead.

While thinking about it—is it possible for a browser to know which app sent it the link, e.g. androidapp://com.example.app? Because that’d probably be a perfectly reasonable referrer, if a browser wanted to send it.

> Note that a handful of sites do choke on unex­pected query strings, including YouTube (!)

I want to learn more about this.