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Are a lat/lon/zoom triple in a URL decoration/tracking? #4

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https://github.com/privacycg/nav-tracking-mitigations/pull/2/files#r703666279 questions whether the parameters in https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4220328,-122.0847584,17.12z should count as link decoration. The numbers do not encode user-identifying information, and modifying them to embed a user ID wouldn't successfully communicate a user ID to anyone (since nobody's listening within google.com/maps to decode the user ID). But it's hard for an automated system inside a browser to prove that, and even hard for humans reading the URL to be confident of it.

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