No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳
They should make this the default.
Or a setting that makes it the default.
I don’t like any software I use to destroy data (even tracking data) without my say so.
Hmm, I agree with you 100%, but power of defaults is how big companies get average consumers. Maybe Firefox should make it default with a setting to turn it on?
A setting titled “allow copying of tracking data”, a lot of people won’t allow.
Fight fire with fire.
Opt-out then, the majority won’t care
It’s not the default because it can break links sometimes, like links that have authentication details in the parameters.
There’s an addon I use for the Android version that does this by default.
It does miss some queryparams though but it dramatically reduces the URL size for the big offending sites.
What is it?
Doesn’t it just clean up the link or does Firefox actually know which part of the link to remove?
What do you mean?
How does it know what part of the link is the site tracking?
Looks like it has a list of global and site specific parameters that it is safe to remove.
But default is putting your cursor in the address bar and hitting ctrl-c. How would Firefox clean it like that?
If it removes the tracking from the link before the page loads, it could work. So it would already be clean when you copy it.
Firefox is getting better every day
Can’t wait til the entire extension ecosystem is available on mobile
Is there an about:config setting to make this the default action or are we gonna have to be patient for that?
I looked for it in about:config, but I couldn’t narrow it down and see which parameter it was (if it’s even in there at all yet).
Also searching for this answer. https://lemmy.world/comment/5626130
Based Firefox
Semi-off-topic, but is there anything like a smarter clipboard on Android that can remove tracking details on paste (would be different from a plain paste)?
URLCheck: https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker
Not quite the same thing, but if you install LinkCleaner as a PWA using a chromium browser, it will show up as an option when sharing the link. Then you can copy to the clipboard or share it elsewhere.
I’m curious whether this sweet feature alone will decrease data greedy websites revenue in $ millions
Firefox user for many, many, many years. I tried chrome once and was dismayed at how sluggish it was, hogging ram & cpu.
FF just gets better and better with every update. I’m amazed that more people aren’t using it.
Is it available for Firefox android ?
On Android you can install LinkCleaner as a PWA using a chromium browser, it will show up as an option when sharing a link from Firefox or any other app.
You can look into URLCheck until it is
Can someone ELI5 what is the difference with normal link sharing?
Does it change for the end user something or what? I ask because I almost never share stuff from my browsers, but I do from some apps such as social media or Sync for Lemmy/Voyager.
Generally a link tells a browser where to find something on the Web, but you can stuff it with additional information so that when a server receives a request for that something, it will know how the browser got that link.
This feature strip’s out that additional information.
it just removes all the crap at the end of a link
Try to copy an Amazon link with and without this option and you’ll see
Ok, I’ll try.
Try to copy an Amazon link with and without this option and you’ll see
Try to copy an Amazon link with and without this option and you’ll see
There’s also the ClearURLs add-on.
Well yeah but building in privacy-enhancing features like this is a great strategy for FF.
Why would i ever have a link with tracking?
