Great stuff. Firefox swinging the big dick about lately.

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.

firefox removes tracking data

chrome wants to make it possible for websites to refuse to serve you data if you run unapproved software

there is, in fact, a good guy in the browser wars

That’s awesome! I use the Clear URLs extension and it does a great job but it’ll be nice to have this capability baked in.

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.

Another fine addition would be a cut of redirecting trash. If you post some link in some soc network, it would sometimes replace it with it's own link going through an outbound clicks tracker, safety pages 'Do you really want to follow it?' or just block you saying the link seems malicious.

If I'm a 3%er, can I choose not to have it?

Based Firefox

Neat. Now we need a built-in AMPutator.

Firefox once again proving it’s the GOAT of browsers.

I’m sure this will come to mobile soon as well.

Would love to see this becoming a default !

Fucking fantastic, People’s browser gets better and better!

BASED

This should be default, or at least a switch, that if enabled, all links copied without tracking. BTW i was thinking, isnt there a simple app or service, that does only this: listen for links in clipboard, if a link added, automatically removes tracking params, and replaces with that on clipboard?

How does firefox determine which params are trackers and which params are required data?

It’s a shame they went for the additional option rather than a persistent setting that would always strip it from a URI.

Good move

Tried it yesterday. Not working on Amazon links quite yet, hopefully the feature improves. Would love the ability to toggle it for default.

I think I’m against this. Not because it’s the wrong thing to do, but it’s just going to swing marketers & such to obscure their tracking URLs to something like /my-slug/hashed-uid-for-tracking-without-query-param/post & it maybe unsafe or impossible to replace that part of the URL is some cases (think how not all credit cards numbers work, it has a built-in algorithm). The corpos can do this already now but query params are easier & less fiddly. Despite the large number of add-ons that could combat this already (including a uBlock Origin filter list), there wasn’t enough incentive to start another ad/tracking arms race… but you introduce it as a default feature in a major (🤞) browser, & now the corpos take notice instead of being able to wave it off as something a minority of users are doing.

…And I say this as the guy that reminds $WORK chat poster to remove their tracking URLs for the privacy of the group

wonder if they would actually bake in something like actually legitimate url shortener tool

🙏

Happy to see this.

Yeah ok but my affiliate links what happens to them?