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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

most of the time sharing utm links isn't helpful to the origin as if you copy a link from your email it'll have medium=email, but actually should now be medium=direct

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it's still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header

this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023

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