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@galiat galiat commented Feb 9, 2025

Instagram adds tracking via the query string which caused Signal to be unable to lookup the group. Organizations looking to leave Instagram are posting a link to their Signal group as a 'Link in Bio' on Instagram and due to the URL tracking instagram adds, Signal was unable to lookup the group. There might be a better place in the code to remove the query string. Def open to feedback.

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Organizations looking to leave Instagram are posting a link to their Signal group as a 'Link in Bio' on Instagram and due to the URL tracking instagram adds, Signal was unable to lookup the group.

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fixes #7155

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Tested on a Mac. You can see Im not in a group, I click on a link in a bio, and then I land in a group.

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…gnored. Instagram adds tracking via the Query string which caused Signal to be unable to lookup the group
@galiat galiat force-pushed the galia-fix-issue-7155-clean branch from f01b356 to b6d3b05 Compare February 9, 2025 00:46
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galiat commented Mar 30, 2025

@ImAwsumm thanks for reviewing... what are the next steps?

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Pretty sure this is good to go
We'll have to wait and see what contributers tbink of this before pushing it

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Group Link does not work when there is a query string (added by Meta so they can link track)
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