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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978
No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. π₯³
The people on Lemmy convinced me to switch from Chrome to Firefox.
One of us. One of us.
Next step is switching from socks to knee socks.
This is already moving fast
Firefox is just that browser. Nothing beats it.
Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.
Chrome can get fucked.
Thanks Mozilla
I just used this and it was awesome. Just in case you were wondering.
Nice! Iβve been using the clean links app on ios but this will eliminate a step.
I've added that plugin on Firefox and Firefox for Android. It makes chat messages so much more legible.
I really hope the ctrl-c shortcut defaults to that
As much as I like this idea in theory, in practice I would actually be pretty annoyed if ctrl+c did anything other than copy the currently selected text. I would like a keyboard shortcut, though.
That should be an option for sure!
Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me
Why wouldn't this simply be default behavior, and then they could add a "Copy link with tracking" menu item?
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.
Probably just removes known tracking GET parameters like utm_*. Just from a parameter name and content it is impossble to infer the use.
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.
Hadn't thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.
I love Firefox it is a great browser and this is nice to have built in now.
Is this on Android yet? If yes, how do I use it, don't see an option
Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.
I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. π€·ββοΈ
~~These things also all strip off the tokens which make gift links work~~
Edit looks like I was wrong on this
Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it's using regex.
Tested New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Nature, and they seemed to work (unlike the one built-in on Mastodon, which fails on all of those)
It however did not however strip all the tracking parameters - some of the stuff indicating that a link was shared by an Android user from the New York Times didn't get stripped off.
kept the smid=nytcore-android-share
If there was a form to report exactly that or edit the list. The base of regexes needs a lot of rules unique to domains to be effective, like an adblock. And they obv put the most popular first.
Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that's for the users, not the trackers and marketers.
URL query string is only one way to pass variables. each has drawbacks https://stackoverflow.com/questions/597700/what-is-the-best-alternative-for-querystring
I tried it and the link didn't work. Anyone else have issues?
Yeah it only worked sometimes for me, it'll probably get better with time
Thank goodness. I hate trying to copy share links and they got a whole paragraph of tracking BS. Even YouTube started to add that.
