HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionmessage-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up11.28Karrow-down18file-text
arrow-up11.27Karrow-down1message-squareFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionHiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareplz1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·7 months agoBlanket-removing the query string would break many real links, so I’d imagine it’s more nuanced than that.
minus-squareGoun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·7 months agoI really hope they’re not sending the URL anywhere…
minus-squareKnusper@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI don’t see why they should send the URL somewhere. For Googley reasons, most tracking parameters start with “utm_”. You can remove those pretty naïvely, generally without links breaking.
Blanket-removing the query string would break many real links, so I’d imagine it’s more nuanced than that.
I really hope they’re not sending the URL anywhere…
I don’t see why they should send the URL somewhere. For Googley reasons, most tracking parameters start with “utm_”. You can remove those pretty naïvely, generally without links breaking.