Thanks. Fixed. I stripped what I thought was a tracker without testing.

The fun part is you can change the text before what you thought was tracking to anything you want:

http://apnews.com/article/apnews-declares-trump-stupid-4bb0b...

This is true about a lot of sites and I'll often remove the unimportant part when saving or sharing urls for brevity sake. E.g.

https://apnews.com/article/4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab

This is true for most news websites as well as online shopping sites