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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

most of the time sharing utm links isn't helpful to the origin as if you copy a link from your email it'll have medium=email, but actually should now be medium=direct

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it's still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header