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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. ๐Ÿฅณ

Firefox copy link without site tracking

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Can someone ELI5 what is the difference with normal link sharing?

Does it change for the end user something or what? I ask because I almost never share stuff from my browsers, but I do from some apps such as social media or Sync for Lemmy/Voyager.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

it just removes all the crap at the end of a link

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Generally a link tells a browser where to find something on the Web, but you can stuff it with additional information so that when a server receives a request for that something, it will know how the browser got that link.

This feature strip's out that additional information.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try to copy an Amazon link with and without this option and you'll see

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago