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Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by hiramfromthechi to c/technology

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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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[–] cybersandwich 56 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What this has done for me has highlighted how many things are tracker me and how badly those things are designed because they don't fail gracefully.

I had a telehealth visit link today that broke using this feature. So that's nice to know. My virtual doctors appointments are being tracked by a third party.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Edit, looks like Firefox is smarter than me, ignore this.

I don’t know what the link was doing, but just because FF thought it was “tracking info” does not mean it was nefarious. It could be used for authentication or security. I have not tested it, but I presume this would break a “reset your password” email link.

[–] GrayBoltWolf 10 points 1 year ago

So click the regular copy button instead?

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