I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

A developer reflects on adding a referral query string feature (via= parameter) to their open-source Wander Console project, only to discover it broke legitimate URLs by returning 404 errors. Inspired by Chris Morgan's post criticizing URL query string tracking, the author removed the feature in v0.6.0. The post argues that modifying someone else's URL by appending query strings is both technically harmful and ethically questionable, since it creates a new URL that may point to a different or nonexistent resource.