Why?
If you follow such shopping url, and commit a purchase, some advertising party will earn some money on you.
However, you can prevent this by feeding the short url into untrack-url
tool:
$ untrack-url http://ali.ski/gkMqy
all tracking query params will be removed, before opening in browser, so nobody will earn money on you, except the seller. 😇
untrack-url
requires Go 1.7 or later.
$ go get -u github.com/vbauerster/untrack-url
Usage: untrack-url [OPTIONS] URL
OPTIONS:
-d debug: print debug info, implies -p
-p print only: don't open URL in browser
-v print version number
Known trackers:
ad.admitad.com
alitems.com
epnclick.ru
lenkmio.com
s.click.aliexpress.com
shopeasy.by
www.youtube.com
Known shops:
ali.epn.bz
alibonus.com
cashback.epn.bz
epn.bz
letyshops.com
letyshops.ru
multivarka.pro
ru.aliexpress.com
tmall.aliexpress.com
www.banggood.com
www.coolicool.com
www.gearbest.com
www.tinydeal.com