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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 to c/[email protected]

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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Transcendant 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.