Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option
Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834978
No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳
Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.
Hell yes finally
I just used this and it was awesome. Just in case you were wondering.
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 love Firefox it is a great browser and this is nice to have built in now.
These things also all strip off the tokens which make gift links workEdit looks like I was wrong on this
Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it's using regex.
Tested New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Nature, and they seemed to work (unlike the one built-in on Mastodon, which fails on all of those)
It however did not however strip all the tracking parameters - some of the stuff indicating that a link was shared by an Android user from the New York Times didn't get stripped off.
kept the smid=nytcore-android-share
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. 🤷♂️
Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that's for the users, not the trackers and marketers.
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?
Yeah it only worked sometimes for me, it'll probably get better with time
What type of link was it?
Sausage link.
Thank goodness. I hate trying to copy share links and they got a whole paragraph of tracking BS. Even YouTube started to add that.