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Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option (self.firefox)
submitted 11 months ago by hiramfromthechi to c/firefox
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978

No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I assume they've modeled it after ClearURLs, which exists as an addon here, and as a uBlock filter here. The short answer is it's a ton of whitelisted regex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And the odd cases of false positives is probably why it's a separate field and not a replacement of the regular copy function.