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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by 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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[–] 59 points 2 years ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A uBlock style community sourced list would be a great way to address this. Once it's in prod, an addon would be next.

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