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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.