Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 7 months agoDid 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.
silence7@slrpnk.net 7 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
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 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.