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How to prevent link hijacking on sites like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter? (feddit.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by helenslunch@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Lately I've noticed some mainstream sites injection tracking links into literally every link on their site.

When I hover over it, it shows the correct link at the bottom of my browser, but if I click it or copy it, it takes me to a hijacked tracker link.

Then I can't even get the original link without having my activity tracked.

How do I get the original link that appears at the bottom of my browser?

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (20 children)

There's an extension for Firefox and maybe Chrome that should help. I think it's called ClearURL, or something similar. It removes the trackers from the ends of URLs

EDIT: That's assuming that it's a legitimate tracking URL, and not something that's been added by malware.

[–] BuckShot686@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't have an extention on FF but whenever I copy a link there's an option to also copy clean link. I'm not home, but I believe this is associated with my search engine being SearXNG.

[–] lemonuri@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is actually a rather new feature in the firefox browser unrelated to searx.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that feature default for vanilla firefox? Or do you need to go fiddle in settings to turn that on

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Vanilla.

The only reason I didn't mention it is because it's for copying links, whereas the extension should do it while opening, without needing to copy it first.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 10 months ago

Thats a level of convenience that will probably get me to grab the extension, but Im glad firefox has that as a feature anyway

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