If you wanted to do this and make it default, I believe you should be able to do so using userChrome.css. You won’t be able to change the text, but you can remove the old menu item.
I just want a shortcut for “copy without tracking” on the current tab instead of having to use the context menu. I’m fine with it not being “Ctrl+C,” as long as it’s reasonably easy to remember, like maybe “Ctrl+Shift+C” or even a sequence of commands (i.e. select address bar, then special copy command).
Likewise, there should be an easy way to open a link without trackers, like “Ctrl+shift+click” or something.
Or at least the option to make it the default. I could see some situations where someone may want to test a link with non-identifying parameters (like identifying the campaign source), and not wanting to have that stripped from the URL by default.
But I get you, from a consumer perspective I’d also want it as my default.
In the meantime, there’s ClearURLs or uBlock Origin with filter lists.
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.
If you wanted to do this and make it default, I believe you should be able to do so using userChrome.css. You won’t be able to change the text, but you can remove the old menu item.
I’m unlikely to use the menu button, I generally use Ctrl+C/Cmd+C. I’ll have to poke around and see if there’s an option to set that shortcut.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think you would be able to do this as ctrl+c copies what is highlighted rather than the actual link.
I just want a shortcut for “copy without tracking” on the current tab instead of having to use the context menu. I’m fine with it not being “Ctrl+C,” as long as it’s reasonably easy to remember, like maybe “Ctrl+Shift+C” or even a sequence of commands (i.e. select address bar, then special copy command).
Likewise, there should be an easy way to open a link without trackers, like “Ctrl+shift+click” or something.
Or at least the option to make it the default. I could see some situations where someone may want to test a link with non-identifying parameters (like identifying the campaign source), and not wanting to have that stripped from the URL by default.
But I get you, from a consumer perspective I’d also want it as my default.
In the meantime, there’s ClearURLs or uBlock Origin with filter lists.
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?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
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.
On android anyway, that’s an interceptable action, and you can also monitor and alter the clipboard.
So they could either alter what gets copied before its copied, or scan the copied item after it’d copied and alter it.
It doesn’t.
If you think about it though, you’ve already visited that link so why clean it now.
So the person you send it to gets a clean link