cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978
No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳
The people on Lemmy convinced me to switch from Chrome to Firefox.
One of us. One of us.
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Do you have a moment to talk about our penguin lord and saviour?
Firefox is just that browser. Nothing beats it.
You’re one step closer to joining the Librewolf club!
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.
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.
So click the regular copy button instead?
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.
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.
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.
Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.
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Chrome can get fucked.
Thanks Mozilla
Nice! I’ve been using the clean links app on ios but this will eliminate a step.
I’ve added that plugin on Firefox and Firefox for Android. It makes chat messages so much more legible.
I really hope the ctrl-c shortcut defaults to that
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.
That should be an option for sure!
I just used this and it was awesome. Just in case you were wondering.
Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me
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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
I love Firefox it is a great browser and this is nice to have built in now.
Is this on Android yet? If yes, how do I use it, don’t see an option
Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.
I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷♂️
URL query string is only one way to pass variables. each has drawbacks https://stackoverflow.com/questions/597700/what-is-the-best-alternative-for-querystring
I tried it and the link didn’t work. Anyone else have issues?
What type of link was it?
Sausage link.
Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that’s for the users, not the trackers and marketers.
