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

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] Orbituary 29 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There already is an addon called ClearURLs

[–] Orbituary 2 points 1 year ago
[–] NounsAndWords 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?