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New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy (www.eff.org)
submitted 9 months ago by KelsonV to c/technology
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[โ€“] wilberfan 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anyone know if things like uBlock Origin already handle this? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] ante 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

uBlock Origin ~~doesn't~~ doesn't by default, but apparently you can enable a filter which removes tracking params from your URLs. I've not personally used this, but I use an add-on called ClearURLs which does something similar.

[โ€“] tb_ 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

ClearURLs isn't on Firefox Android, however (for now). uBlock and Privacy Badger are

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use fennec with a custom extensions list. You can add any extension you want.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Using Firefox on Android, version 117.1.0, and ClearURLs is there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I use this uBlock Origin filter for cleaning URLs:

https://filterlists.com/lists/actually-legitimate-url-shortener-tool