> I genuinely don't understand why people don't get more upset over hitting refresh on a webpage and ending up in a significantly different place. It's mind-boggling and actually insulting as a user. Or grabbing a URL and sending to another person, only to find out it doesn't make sense.

I do dislike those cases. But I also dislike being two-thirds through a video or page, thinking “I’ve got to share this with <friend>, it’s right up their alley”, then hitting my fast combination of keys to share a URL and realising the link shared my exact place, which will make the person think I’m sharing a snippet and not the whole thing, so now I need to send another message to clarify.

I like being able to have URLs reproduce a specific state, but I also want that to be a specific decision and not something I can share or save to a bookmark by mistake.

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cassepipe 3 days ago | parent [-]

I understand the inconvenience to have to leave a keyboard-driven workflow but I think the Share button --> Copy link are common enough now that it shouldn't be an issue. I know firefox also has "Copy clean link" if you right-click on the urlbar.

I did not find an extension that does just that but it should be trivial to create one and assign a shortcut to it.

	▲	latexr 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Whenever I try that flow, it either copies the link with the extra details or it screws up the link entirely (e.g. removing the `?v=` from a YouTube link). In other words, it’s extra work for worse results.
	▲	ringer 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Except when it's not implemented properly and it breaks other workflows. For example, if it only shows a button (not a link or a tag) and copies the link to the clipboard via JavaScript, consider this scenario: I want to send this "link" to my other computer using Firefox's built-in Send Page to Device feature. I have to click Share, click the copy to clipboard button, open a new page, paste the URL, and only then can I share it. If the state were stored in the URL, I could do it in two steps: open context menu -> Send Page to Device, and I'm done.