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

silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it’s using regex.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tested New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Nature, and they seemed to work (unlike the one built-in on Mastodon, which fails on all of those)

    It however did not however strip all the tracking parameters - some of the stuff indicating that a link was shared by an Android user from the New York Times didn’t get stripped off.

    Eg: www.nytimes.com/…/punk-museum-las-vegas.html?unlo…

    kept the smid=nytcore-android-share

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If there was a form to report exactly that. The base of regexes needs a lot of rules unique to domains to be effective, like an adblock. And they obv put the most popular first.

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