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HiramFromTheChi to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 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 Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 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

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  • @robocall@lemmy.world
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    131•2 years ago

    The people on Lemmy convinced me to switch from Chrome to Firefox.

    • @floral_toxicity@lemmy.world
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      57•2 years ago

      One of us. One of us.

    • oce 🐆
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      33•2 years ago

      Next step is switching from socks to knee socks.

    • @Magesticles@lemm.ee
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      13•2 years ago

      Firefox is just that browser. Nothing beats it.

    • SmokeyDope
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      4•2 years ago

      You’re one step closer to joining the Librewolf club!

  • SeaJ
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    38•2 years ago

    Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.

  • @jennwiththesea@lemmy.world
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    15•2 years ago

    I just used this and it was awesome. Just in case you were wondering.

  • ReallyKinda
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    14•2 years ago

    Nice! I’ve been using the clean links app on ios but this will eliminate a step.

    • @SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’ve added that plugin on Firefox and Firefox for Android. It makes chat messages so much more legible.

  • @piecat@lemmy.world
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    12•2 years ago

    I really hope the ctrl-c shortcut defaults to that

    • @kakes@sh.itjust.works
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      31•2 years ago

      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.

    • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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      9•2 years ago

      That should be an option for sure!

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    10•2 years ago

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

    • SmokeyDope
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      4•2 years ago

      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.

      • Doug Holland
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        1•2 years ago

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

    • @Mamertine@lemmy.world
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      4•2 years ago

      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.

      • Derpgon
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        3•2 years ago

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

  • @phx@lemmy.ca
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    10•2 years ago

    Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me

  • @Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    9•2 years ago

    I love Firefox it is a great browser and this is nice to have built in now.

  • @silence7@slrpnk.net
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    These things also all strip off the tokens which make gift links work

    Edit looks like I was wrong on this

    • 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.

      • @silence7@slrpnk.net
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        8•2 years ago

        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.

  • @thejodie@programming.dev
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    5•2 years ago

    I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷‍♂️

  • N-E-N
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    5•2 years ago

    Is this on Android yet? If yes, how do I use it, don’t see an option

    • HiramFromTheChiOP
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      7•2 years ago

      Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.

  • m3t00🌎
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    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

  • Doug Holland
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    3•2 years ago

    Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that’s for the users, not the trackers and marketers.

  • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    2•2 years ago

    I tried it and the link didn’t work. Anyone else have issues?

    • @caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de
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      Yeah it only worked sometimes for me, it’ll probably get better with time

    • HiramFromTheChiOP
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      1•2 years ago

      What type of link was it?

      • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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        2•2 years ago

        Sausage link.

  • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    2•2 years ago

    Thank goodness. I hate trying to copy share links and they got a whole paragraph of tracking BS. Even YouTube started to add that.

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