Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to place and read 'first-party cookies,' which aren’t blocked by the browser, unlike third-party
This is exceptionally frustrating.
If someone posts a YouTube link on Facebook it will show the thumbnail and the description and that’s it. There’s literally no way to locate the video because it obscures the address, ensuring that the only way to reach that link is by clicking it and running through Facebook’s tracking system (l.facebook.com).
YouTube itself has also begun doing the same thing, obscuring the title and channel in the browser, so you can’t even search for the video via FreeTube or NewPipe or anything else.
Reddit is also doing this now by hijacking links and redirecting to out.reddit.com
Sad days.
This is why we use extensions
I have all kinds of software that are supposed to stop this. They don’t work.
I even manually add the tracking domains and they still don’t work.
Its called using third party front ends. The extensions just redirect and replace
I’m all ears, what ya got?
Extensions or front ends?
For extensions I use libredirect and for YouTube I use invidious. Libreredirect redirects YouTube links and replaces embedded YouTube videos.
None of those frontends work. Every single time they just take me to a dead site.
Twitter also was one of the first hijacking links a long time ago.
Unsurprising. But yeah I see them everywhere now.