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

submitted 11 months 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't this simply be default behavior, and then they could add a "Copy link with tracking" menu item?

[–] Mamertine 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do that manually. In about 1 out of 10, what looks like tracking stuff is actually needed for the link to work. So I'd expect that copy without site tracking option to not work 100% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Probably just removes known tracking GET parameters like utm_*. Just from a parameter name and content it is impossble to infer the use.

[–] Smokeydope 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It might become the default a little later on, they want to make sure it works ok first as an experimental feature before pushing it as a default would be my guess.

[–] DougHolland 1 points 11 months ago

Hadn't thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.