TL;DR: Meta has been tracking your every move on the web for years and probably won't be stopping anytime soon. Now they've announced a feature to share the information they're collecting with you.
How nice of them. I hope I can pay for this feature!
Never use in-app browsers.
This is only a problem if you use the Facebook app, which you obviously shouldn't be doing.
Facebook has a whole other method for desktop where they hijack the links other users post and insert their own tracking links.
Surprised Pikachu.jpg but not so surprised
I'm surprised they weren't doing that before
Maybe they did, but now you can view that data too? It's Facebook after all...
Yeah, I saw it the other day. I would bet a lot of money that the information was already stored. In fact, if their data group didn't already store that information (link clicks to external websites) they should all be fired. This is just a way that you can find something that you'd previously looked at on facebook (which, oddly, may be the only site on the planet with a worse search function than reddit).
a firefox extension that does this automatically?? removing the redirect/tracking link and convert back into normal link)
Thank you so much. :D
edit: I ended up using this one that has more users. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-fbclid-and-utm
In Firefox, at least desktop, you can right click, and copy link without tracking stuff.
Edit: havent tried with links from Facebook
Not sure if it automatically changes Facebook links, but the Facebook container extension is good at removing other tracking that Facebook does through news sites and such
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