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Whoever came up with this is a genius (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by kayky@thelemmy.club to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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This is the direction we should be moving in.

Bravo.

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[–] BlursedTarot@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I assume this strips the utm parameters?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and a few other such parameters where it's pretty clear that they're only used for tracking.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it strips UTM parameters specifically - I think it's limited to parameters that track you individually?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, apparently this is the list of parameters it strips: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/toolkit/components/antitracking/StripOnShareLists/LGPL/StripOnShareLGPL.json

So, yeah, it's only some of the UTM parameters (+ some non-UTM parameters).

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago

And you brought the receipts too :) Indeed, looks like it's blocking the ones that might potentially identify you, not more generic ones (like utm_content=top_banner or whatever).