How to prevent yoast from stripping off ?get variables

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I have a wordpress site where a custom template processes urls like

https://mysite.com/program/?id=424

Yoast broke this functionality a few years ago, so I implemented the hack below to our functions.php file.

However, one of the more recent updates breaks our work-around.

How do I keep yoast from messing around with our ?get variables?

/* YOAST SEO MODIFICATIONS */
if (function_exists('is_plugin_active') && is_plugin_active('wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php')) {
	// remove YOAST processing on the generic /program/?id=xxx page
	add_action('template_redirect','remove_wpseo');
	function remove_wpseo(){
	    if ( is_page(35409)) {
			$wp_thing = WPSEO_Frontend::get_instance();
			remove_action('wp_head',array($wp_thing,'head'),1);
	    }
	}
	
	// do not let YOAST remove ?variables for our program pages 
	add_filter( 'wpseo_opengraph_url', 'filter_wpseo_opengraph_url', 10, 1 ); 
	
	function filter_wpseo_opengraph_url( $wpseo_frontend ) { 
		if (stristr($wpseo_frontend, '/program/')) {
			$wpseo_frontend = "https://www.upaya.org" . $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI];
		}
	    return $wpseo_frontend; 
	}; 
}