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Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option

Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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.

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GrayBoltWolf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So click the regular copy button instead?

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Knusper@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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_.

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- laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh, so it’s not just stripping the GET parameters? Okay, that’s smarter than I was assuming
  
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  - Knusper@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Stripping all GET parameters would break many, many legitimate webpages. 🫠
    
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- Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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