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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 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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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There already is an addon called ClearURLs

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] mina@berlin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@NounsAndWords
At least in Germany, it's about 10%.
@4am