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

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do it for affiliate links too.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually curious. What's wrong with people making money?

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nothing wrong with people making money if they are honest about their shilling and tell you upfront if they are affiliate links and they get a cut if you click on them, or that their product review is sponsored. One of my favorite yt channels is cheaprvliving and Bob will be straight and honest with you about that and I like that.

I do think its a little sleezy when creators don't be honest with you about them shilling and making money from affiliate links.

[–] thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

In many cases a lot of sites don’t make it clear that they have a conflict of interest.

You want to push a product on me and you’ll get a cut? Cool, but disclose that.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing provided it is an honest and upfront with consent from the user. The problem is vast majority of affiliate links are non-consensual, buried in articles and in the worst case are the reason that pages even exist - "top ten dishwashers", "50 gifts to buy your wife for Christmas" etc. clickbait garbage. I doubt most visitors even understand that's why the pages exist or the financial remuneration they get from making these lists.

So it would not be a bad thing that if a browser to detect an affiliate link and ask you if you wanted to follow it as-is or strip the affiliate info out with a checkbox to remember the decision for the site.

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

At first, I thought this was a joke about privacy until I realized that this is real and sadly this is something we need.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I like the ':has' pun in the title too. Supporting that is a real game changer!

[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope one day Firefox integrates uBlock Origin by default.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for necroposting but are you the real linux creator

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is great because I hate manually removing that stuff before I share a link. And I always have to test the link before clicking send.

[–] AlbinJose1001@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if it also available in android.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Won't take long, I'm sure. The mobile features are usually following the desktop implementation closely, for anything but the addon functionality.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Edit: disregard below. I suck cocks.

I'll be honest and say that I'd rather the browser not modify the URLs I want to share.

Unless it's an option..

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