Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.
BASED
Yeah ok but my affiliate links what happens to them?
Valid question. Im short: They will stop working.
You are getting downvoted for the question because most people here think that you shouldn’t use them. And they might be right.
Edit: disregard below. I suck cocks.
I’ll be honest and say that I’d rather the browser not modify the URLs I want to share.
Unless it’s an option…
It’s literally the option above…
Oh hehe, serves me right for not reading TFM.
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
Yea, existing extensions get things wrong sometimes. I’m sure this will be the same - especially if sites start changing things to temporarily circumvent. Needs to be an easy way to grab the real URL just in case.
Great stuff. Firefox swinging the big dick about lately.
The John Holmes of browsers
who?
John Holmes.
Don’t “who?” when they have a Wikipedia page.
Imagine being immortalised forever on Wikipedia with the sentence “… Was best known for his exceptionally large penis”
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You probably know him as Johnny Wadd.
Just slappin the table with that fuckin toddler’s leg.
brandishing that baby arm holding an apple
Baby arm holding an apple, or an apple holding a baby arm?
Tried it yesterday. Not working on Amazon links quite yet, hopefully the feature improves. Would love the ability to toggle it for default.
Based Firefox
Would love to see this becoming a default !
Sorry for necroposting but are you the real linux creator
Lmao no
oh okay
Based.
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.
Clear URL is great. Beware that it can break some login and payment sites though. The Addon unfortunately lacks a whitelist so you have to turn it on and off, so it’s easy to forget to turn back on.
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.
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%.
@4am
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
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
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
$WORKchat poster to remove their tracking URLs for the privacy of the groupFucking fantastic, People’s browser gets better and better!
Hope one day Firefox integrates uBlock Origin by default.
What you want is Librewolf then.
