Nothing bugs me more than copy/pasting some text from an article and getting:

    "Text that you copied"
    
    - From XYZ Times (httx://abc123.tld/path/to/article)

Apple Books does that nonsense as well and it drives me up a wall.

I'm sure there are browser extensions to tame but this thankfully there aren't many website that do this that I care to visit often.

> Then one time I noticed the URL was shortened and added a lot of tracking.

Ugh, yeah, this is really annoying as well. When a dedicated share button is my only option (like in a mobile app) I often open an incognito/private browsers window and paste it in so I can get redirected and then rip off all the tracking crap. Back when I used TikTok I had an iOS shortcut that I would "share" to which would rip off all the tracking for me. I always would feel gross when someone "anonymous" would share a TikTok or similar link and there would be a banner at the top of the page "Real Name shared this with you, follow them?".