• cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    553·
    10 months ago

    What this has done for me has highlighted how many things are tracker me and how badly those things are designed because they don’t fail gracefully.

    I had a telehealth visit link today that broke using this feature. So that’s nice to know. My virtual doctors appointments are being tracked by a third party.

    • Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.comEnglish
      332·
      10 months ago

      Edit, looks like Firefox is smarter than me, ignore this.

      I don’t know what the link was doing, but just because FF thought it was “tracking info” does not mean it was nefarious. It could be used for authentication or security. I have not tested it, but I presume this would break a “reset your password” email link.

    • Coasting0942@reddthat.comEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Umm, your telehealth link was basically a one time password to log you in/authenticate you.

      This feature is for browsing the web where you shouldn’t have to identify yourself to visit a blog about Ravens. If you’re visiting your bank, a service you already use, etc, then the unique url was more for them to confirm it’s you because only you have that unique url.

    • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
      163·
      10 months ago

      Yep. I stopped using my local medical center’s app because wouldn’t you know, they sold my info to a fuckload of 4th parties. Spam from the email I setup, 100% for only the account (Firefox relay), evidences the facts directly.

      Pretty fucking gross misconduct in my opinion.

    • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      This is a good step forward for privacy. However, how it’ll handle data embedded in the URL like MVC?

      Also, if it does work well, it’s a matter of time until developers find a way to get around it and probably enhance and increase data collected in the process.

  • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      27·
      10 months ago

      As much as I like this idea in theory, in practice I would actually be pretty annoyed if ctrl+c did anything other than copy the currently selected text. I would like a keyboard shortcut, though.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me

      • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        it breaks some websites for me tho, such as the jetbrains YouTrack issue tracker. (including self-hosted); it just keeps reloading
        works on all other websites pretty much fine, but it’s definitely NOT perfect

  • N-E-N@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Is this on Android yet? If yes, how do I use it, don’t see an option

  • thejodie@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷‍♂️

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that’s for the users, not the trackers and marketers.