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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. ๐Ÿฅณ

Firefox copy link without site tracking

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[โ€“] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But default is putting your cursor in the address bar and hitting ctrl-c. How would Firefox clean it like that?

[โ€“] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If it removes the tracking from the link before the page loads, it could work. So it would already be clean when you copy it.

[โ€“] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On android anyway, that's an interceptable action, and you can also monitor and alter the clipboard.

So they could either alter what gets copied before its copied, or scan the copied item after it'd copied and alter it.

[โ€“] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't.

If you think about it though, you've already visited that link so why clean it now.

[โ€“] akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

So the person you send it to gets a clean link