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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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[–] 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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