Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option : firefox

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My c++ is pretty rusty, but I hopped through the changelogs. I think this is the source for it here https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/components/antitracking/URLQueryStringStripper.cpp

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

tbf, out of all the programming languages c++ is the worst in terms of DX and readability. Even worse than java, which I despised so much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I don't know the relevant programming languages so I don't know what to search for, but generally, if you want to find something in the Firefox source code, supposedly https://searchfox.org is a great way to do that.

[+] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's various well-known tracking parameters that can be stripped, like UTM parameters. Stripping all query parameters would break a lot of sites, like anything in the vein of http://example.com/site.php?id=123

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blanket-removing the query string would break many real links, so I'd imagine it's more nuanced than that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really hope they're not sending the URL anywhere..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't see why they should send the URL somewhere. For Googley reasons, most tracking parameters start with "utm_". You can remove those pretty naïvely, generally without links breaking.