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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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[–] Risk 160 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ooh. I hope this can be set as the default for 'Copy Link' and then I can just have the tracking when I actually want it.

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

have the tracking when I actually want it.

So never? I agree defaulting it would be great as long as it doesn't falsely remove anything.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not all queryparameters are tracking, so the option to copy the actual href of the hyperlink is useful.

Most of the time I appreciate a feature that strips them automatically

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Yea, existing extensions get things wrong sometimes. I’m sure this will be the same - especially if sites start changing things to temporarily circumvent. Needs to be an easy way to grab the real URL just in case.

[–] Risk 1 points 10 months ago

Very occasionally when clicking on a promotional link, for example.