It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.
tumblr management know we feel this way though. They’ve just added trackers to sharing urls/links. The first step to targeted advertising, yay!
don’t get complacent about the possibility of tumblr becoming a corporate hellscape
remember that ANY text in a link after a ? is only tracking information and can ALWAYS be safely removed
Quick summary of the (I think) easy way I've been getting around this now:
- When you copy a link (form your dashboard, not from their page), it'll come in the format https://at.tumblr.com/[blog name]/[post number]/[tracking junk] (brackets are just for show, don't include those!)
- Delete the tracking junk. That's anything after the post number.
- Replace the "at" before tumblr.com with [blog name]. Replace where [blog name] used to be with "post" (no quotation marks).
- Your final format should be https://[blog name].tumblr.com/post/[post number]
- Share the link! It should go directly to the post and not route through any app store or tracking nonsense.
Hope this helps someone!
