Random characters appearing after URLs – always same characters

Hi all and Mark & team,

I am running CP5.4 and WP3.7

I have noticed the URLs generated by CP have a trailing random character list which is rather ugly and unprofessional.

in my case:

https://www.example.com/shops/#.Uo3wlMSfi3g

Always the same #.Uo3wlMSfi3g which looks terrible.

I found this post:

Listing URL format

Which seems to indicate the SOCIAL shortcode may be to blame. I can confirm I use the SOCIAL shortcode in my coupon listing template to allow users the share the coupons.

Has anyone run into the same problem? Is there any way to remove that ugly random URL string or do I need to jump in and start hacking the PHP code?

Many thanks,

Alex