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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how long before they start changing the param names? Lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right now you have to go out of your way to select the "Copy without tracking params" from the context menu. It's not like it threatens Google's business model

If they do start changing them you'll need an uRemoveTheGoddamnTrackingParamsOrigin extension

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Changing those param names can actually be pretty complex, because they're used for all sorts of analytics. Whole ad campaigns revolve around those codes, behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't want to give these people any ideas, but you can just pseudo randomize parameter names and decode them server side before storing them for analytics, so this is a non issue.