# 2 different links or some stuff left out?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 12, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-different-links-or-some-stuff-left-out/730875 "2015-09-12T17:20:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-different-links-or-some-stuff-left-out/730875/1 "2015-09-12T17:20:20Z")

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Picasa picture link question.

Sometimes Picasa gives me this kind of link:

[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs%2525208.19.15%252520004.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs%2525208.19.15%252520004.jpg)

```auto

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs%2525208.19.15%252520004.jpg

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And sometimes cleaned up like this:

[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs252520004.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs252520004.jpg)

```auto

[URL="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/Dogs252520004.jpg"]

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Both go to the same picture in the album but you can see that the ( %2525208.19.15%) is not there. ???

Some uploads I make have those and then a different time the links won’t have the extra stuff.

What gives???

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-different-links-or-some-stuff-left-out/730875/2 "2015-09-14T05:08:30Z")

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Are you copy/pasting them from different places, maybe? That last part is probably just for humans and/or automated tracking, and doesn’t really matter. You can put anything you want after the s800-Ic42/  
[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/thereisnodog.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/thereisnodog.jpg)

[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/wjfwoihfwawit4wwhw8fhw8fhwaeghaweofgnarougnruognasofgnsefasofahsf.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-usBIglRDAyQ/VdU5C-NgKFI/AAAAAAABD28/77hzJml2qdE/s800-Ic42/wjfwoihfwawit4wwhw8fhw8fhwaeghaweofgnarougnruognasofgnsefasofahsf.jpg)

The picture is identified by the stuff before that last bit. Maybe whichever page or app is generating that last bit has a bug or some secret tracking feature.

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-different-links-or-some-stuff-left-out/730875/3 "2015-09-14T19:06:38Z")

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Hummmm

Thanks for the reply.

You may have me on the right track now…