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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 Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 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