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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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@feddit.uk 152 points 11 months ago

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 44 points 11 months ago

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 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 11 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.

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