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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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] 59 points 9 months ago (8 children)

This may be difficult to maintain as some query parameters might be necessary. How will they be sure they’re not stripping essential elements? Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Awesome if they can pull it off, though.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

[–] funkless_eck 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

most of the time sharing utm links isn't helpful to the origin as if you copy a link from your email it'll have medium=email, but actually should now be medium=direct

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it's still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header

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