Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.
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.
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.
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
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
“refuse to serve you data”, read as, “refuse to show you ads”, yeah right
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.
Had no idea something existed for this, I’m forever deleted annoying tracking info from links. Mozilla continues to impress me with their privacy additions… latest update notified me about email masking which looks like it’ll be a major boon once I work out how to use it.
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.
There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with “utm_”
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
A uBlock style community sourced list would be a great way to address this. Once it’s in prod, an addon would be next.
Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?
Maybe, but only like 3% of people are using Firefox so, maybe not?
@NounsAndWords
At least in Germany, it’s about 10%.
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