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		aestra on March 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brin... For what its worth, the page works fine without all the parameters. Why they are in the submitted link, I don't know.

Two9A on March 25, 2014 [–]

The utm_* parameters tend to be used for source tracking; the important ones here being "content" and "campaign".

Of course, this particular link doesn't refer to HN in its campaign code, so their statistics are going to get a little confused.

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