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HiramFromTheChi to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option

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Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option

HiramFromTheChi to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978

No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳

Firefox copy link without site tracking

  • HiramFromTheChiOP
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    8•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      Eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/magazine/punk-museum-las-vegas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE0.8TqC.QzHPUSPMsy_W&smid=nytcore-android-share

      kept the smid=nytcore-android-share

      • andrew_bidlaw
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        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.

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