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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] charles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Will it work for Gmail's link hijackers where it routes you first to Google then forwards you to the actual site?

[–] arc@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do it for affiliate links too.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually curious. What's wrong with people making money?

[–] thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

In many cases a lot of sites don’t make it clear that they have a conflict of interest.

You want to push a product on me and you’ll get a cut? Cool, but disclose that.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing provided it is an honest and upfront with consent from the user. The problem is vast majority of affiliate links are non-consensual, buried in articles and in the worst case are the reason that pages even exist - "top ten dishwashers", "50 gifts to buy your wife for Christmas" etc. clickbait garbage. I doubt most visitors even understand that's why the pages exist or the financial remuneration they get from making these lists.

So it would not be a bad thing that if a browser to detect an affiliate link and ask you if you wanted to follow it as-is or strip the affiliate info out with a checkbox to remember the decision for the site.

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope one day Firefox integrates uBlock Origin by default.

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[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

At first, I thought this was a joke about privacy until I realized that this is real and sadly this is something we need.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I like the ':has' pun in the title too. Supporting that is a real game changer!

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nice.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Based.

[–] AlbinJose1001@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if it also available in android.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Won't take long, I'm sure. The mobile features are usually following the desktop implementation closely, for anything but the addon functionality.

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is great because I hate manually removing that stuff before I share a link. And I always have to test the link before clicking send.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry for necroposting but are you the real linux creator

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao no

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

oh okay

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Edit: disregard below. I suck cocks.

I'll be honest and say that I'd rather the browser not modify the URLs I want to share.

Unless it's an option..

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