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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 59 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This may be difficult to maintain as some query parameters might be necessary. How will they be sure they’re not stripping essential elements? Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Awesome if they can pull it off, though.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A uBlock style community sourced list would be a great way to address this. Once it's in prod, an addon would be next.

[–] H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There already is an addon called ClearURLs

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