this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
1663 points (99.5% liked)

Firefox

18603 readers
30 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1663
Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This may be difficult to maintain as some query parameters might be necessary. How will they be sure they’re not stripping essential elements? Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Awesome if they can pull it off, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Maybe, but only like 3% of people are using Firefox so, maybe not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@NounsAndWords
At least in Germany, it's about 10%.
@4am

load more comments (6 replies)