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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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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So how long before they start changing the param names? Lol

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Changing those param names can actually be pretty complex, because they're used for all sorts of analytics. Whole ad campaigns revolve around those codes, behind the scenes.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I don't want to give these people any ideas, but you can just pseudo randomize parameter names and decode them server side before storing them for analytics, so this is a non issue.