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August 27[edit]

What is a guce referrer?[edit]

This appears twice in the URL of an email I am working on. I suspect this question is related.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:40, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think guccounter is what Yahoo/AOL/Verizon adds to keep track that it's shown you that you've accepted the "surrender your privacy rights" screen when you have cookies and JS disabled. Appending "&guccounter=2" lets you open their webpages without having to agree to tracking (even tho they'll still try to track you). Guce referrer probably has something to do with tracking too, but I steer clear of those shoddy businesses enough to not have to find out what it's for. 93.136.143.215 (talk) 12:00, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The previous question is very related. The query string part of the URL (the part after the ?) is for storing variable names and values. A programmer can use any name they like. You can set pig=8 or altacetifercero=infinity. As stated in the previous question, programmers can use any name they like. They are not required in any way to publish what variable names they used and what those variable names mean. You can try to decipher meaning, but you could be completely wrong. The previous question asked about guccounter, which we can assume is some kind of counter. But, it might not be a counter at all. We are making an assumption because we are not AOL programmers. So, we have no way to see the actual code on the web server. As for guce referrer, we can assume it is a referrer, but we could be completely wrong. It might not be a referrer in any way. We are not AOL programmers. In your previous question, you claimed that you were not actually asking a question. You were making a statement so others could see that guccounter existed in case it was important. Are you asking a question this time or just making a statement? 199.164.8.1 (talk) 14:18, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say I wasn't asking a question. I said I didn't intend to ask AOL.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:17, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]