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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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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months 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?

[–] mina@berlin.social 2 points 10 months ago

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