• @robocall
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    1311 year ago

    The people on Lemmy convinced me to switch from Chrome to Firefox.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Edit, looks like Firefox is smarter than me, ignore this.

      I don’t know what the link was doing, but just because FF thought it was “tracking info” does not mean it was nefarious. It could be used for authentication or security. I have not tested it, but I presume this would break a “reset your password” email link.

      • Gray
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        101 year ago

        So click the regular copy button instead?

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        I’m rather certain, the way it works is that it removes parameters that are named like well-known tracking parameters. For example, most webpages use Google Analytics, so you see UTM parameters everywhere.

        A “reset your password” link could theoretically use a parameter that’s named utm_content, then it would presumably get removed by this feature, but I see no sane reason why one would name their password-reset parameter like that.
        In general, such tracking parameters are usually named in a way that it will rarely clash with other parameters a webpage may want to use, so for example they may have a prefix like utm_.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Looking at some comments on the linked post, I think you are right, and it would probably be fine for things like a password reset. I could play around with it, but my laptop is in the other room.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Oh, so it’s not just stripping the GET parameters? Okay, that’s smarter than I was assuming

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Umm, your telehealth link was basically a one time password to log you in/authenticate you.

      This feature is for browsing the web where you shouldn’t have to identify yourself to visit a blog about Ravens. If you’re visiting your bank, a service you already use, etc, then the unique url was more for them to confirm it’s you because only you have that unique url.

    • @deleted
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      11 year ago

      This is a good step forward for privacy. However, how it’ll handle data embedded in the URL like MVC?

      Also, if it does work well, it’s a matter of time until developers find a way to get around it and probably enhance and increase data collected in the process.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It’s just the GET parameters it’s stripping, those can be used for all sorts of things to pass information to a website to be used as variables for all manner of innocuous things… They just get (ab)used by trackers more than normal web traffic since most of the other uses comes from a site that can pass that as a POST instead, which embeds the parameters in the request header rather than making the URL a mile long, and wouldn’t be useful (and could actually be problematic) to be shared with others as part of copying it

  • SeaJ
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    381 year ago

    Awesome. I hate having to manually remove that crap.

  • @TK420
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    161 year ago

    Chrome can get fucked.

    Thanks Mozilla

  • @jennwiththesea
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    151 year ago

    I just used this and it was awesome. Just in case you were wondering.

  • ReallyKinda
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    141 year ago

    Nice! I’ve been using the clean links app on ios but this will eliminate a step.

    • @SirQuackTheDuck
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      I’ve added that plugin on Firefox and Firefox for Android. It makes chat messages so much more legible.

  • @piecat
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    121 year ago

    I really hope the ctrl-c shortcut defaults to that

    • @[email protected]
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      311 year ago

      As much as I like this idea in theory, in practice I would actually be pretty annoyed if ctrl+c did anything other than copy the currently selected text. I would like a keyboard shortcut, though.

    • @pdxfed
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      91 year ago

      That should be an option for sure!

      • voxel
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        it breaks some websites for me tho, such as the jetbrains YouTrack issue tracker. (including self-hosted); it just keeps reloading
        works on all other websites pretty much fine, but it’s definitely NOT perfect

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Why wouldn’t this simply be default behavior, and then they could add a “Copy link with tracking” menu item?

    • @Smokeydope
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      41 year ago

      It might become the default a little later on, they want to make sure it works ok first as an experimental feature before pushing it as a default would be my guess.

      • Doug Holland
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        11 year ago

        Hadn’t thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.

    • @Mamertine
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      41 year ago

      I do that manually. In about 1 out of 10, what looks like tracking stuff is actually needed for the link to work. So I’d expect that copy without site tracking option to not work 100% of the time.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Probably just removes known tracking GET parameters like utm_*. Just from a parameter name and content it is impossble to infer the use.

  • @Suavevillain
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    91 year ago

    I love Firefox it is a great browser and this is nice to have built in now.

  • N-E-N
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    51 year ago

    Is this on Android yet? If yes, how do I use it, don’t see an option

    • HiramFromTheChiOP
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      71 year ago

      Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷‍♂️

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    These things also all strip off the tokens which make gift links work

    Edit looks like I was wrong on this